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Green / Sustainable Building
ENY 205
Course: ENY 205
Title: Green & Sustainable Buildings
Long Title: Green & Sustainable Buildings
Course Description: Allows students to understand sustainable design including
building design, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification
and building auditing. Topics include green building, passive thermal architecture,
super insulation, tight envelopes, renewable energy sources for heating, cooling
and electrical power.
Min Credit: 4
Max Credit:
Course Notes: Entered new course 2/5/07 s@
Origin Notes: CNCC
Standard Competencies:
- Understand the broad issues that impact the design
of a zero net energy building.
- Determine the thermal loading of a zero net energy home.
- Determine the electrical loading of a zero net energy
home.
- Have a broad awareness of high efficiency products available.
- Design and/or specify a PV System to provide electrical
energy for a zero net energy building.
- Design and/or specify a geothermal/ground-source heating
cooling system for a zero energy building.
- Understand sustainable designs to include designs using
LEED specifications.
- Understand and conduct sustainable design audits
using LEED criteria.
Topical Outline:
- Introduction
- Energy Generation technologies
- PV Systems
- Grid tied
- Off-grid
- Back up generation
- Solar Hot water heating
- Domestic hot water
- Solar thermal space heating
- Geothermal/Ground-source heat pumps
- Heat load calculations
- System sizing
- System design
- Integration and control of energy generation techniques
- Energy Conservation Technologies
- Passive solar heating
- Insulation and infiltration
- Stack pressures and wind pressures
- Mass-flow
- Infiltraion/exfiltration
- Natural ventilation
- Mechanical ventilation
- Solution techniques
- Verification and validation
- Analytical
- Measurements
- Wall, floor and ceiling construction
- Windows
- Window overhangs
- Window types
- Advanced solar control windows
- Interior space planning
- Southern exposure
- Insulation
- Walls
- Ceiling and floors
- Landscaping
- High efficiency lighting
- High efficiency appliances
- Technical feasibility
- Economic enabling factors
- Conducting energy audits on existing buildings
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