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First Light by Victoria University of Wellington

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-light-by-victoria-university-of-Wellington.html" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Minimalist-Wood-House-Fresh-Holiday-Home-First-Light" border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtDvauNJP6OHyk6yKbsogD3xCCDEY7Mm3NWCTjgoVF1xholfEs-IvwVpPhgn2qKhAuHDXKBIQGAe0HIc8gZojea58r90C69P_u0vdyOqzAXuibw0AA1Tu4IiQiVwWjj1I3NYQsxY8NDw/s640/Minimalist-Wood-House-Fresh-Holiday-Home-First-Light.jpg" title="Minimalist-Wood-House-Fresh-Holiday-Home-First-Light" width="640"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span><span lang="IN"><a href="http://firstlighthouse.ac.nz/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span></a></span><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span></div><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 2011, US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon has held the contest of home design with energy as the main category. </span><span lang="IN">Victoria University of Wellington</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> has participated home design, called <a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-light-by-victoria-university-of-Wellington.html" rel="" target="_blank">First Light</a> for the entrance. Efficient in energy is a goal to this home design beside façade and other aspects as its consideration.</span><br></div><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/first-light-by-victoria-university-of-Wellington.html#more">... Read More ...</a>

First Light by Victoria University of Wellington

In 2011, US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon has held the contest of home design with energy as the main category. Victoria University o...

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High Performance & Energy Efficient Home, ENJOY HOUSE by Team New Jersey

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/high-performance-energy-efficient-home.html" imageanchor="1"><img alt="Home-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCVBV0JlxC9WLTxHYB_t7l9M_o6_cJP3kq1TmuQeQYVgrE7RJpOOGoive0q1HwBFj0nhPMSSSdI7lTATj96k1GkQinwtxdd87Z1JxOIF3Y98dWt11T9mN8aW0dq5ANrbH31PcJ_zDLso/s640/Home-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey.jpg" title="Home-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/high-performance-energy-efficient-home.html" target="_blank">ENJOY HOUSE</a>has been completed by Team New Jersey for participating US Department of energy solar decathlon in 2011. A main concept of this home design is to build a home with high performance and using energy efficiently so that its design applies some technologies.</span></div><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="IN">This home’s design features many special part for </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">an affordable, functional, energy-efficient house suited to the climate of New Jersey </span><span lang="IN">such as, concrete panel in all roof, wall, and floor, perforation, and a rainwater collector called inverter-hip roof. And the technologies in this house such as, an evacuated solar thermal tubes (able to heat domestic hot water and preheating for the hydronic radiant floor), Fiberglass-framed windows, a 9-kW photovoltaic system with target output of 36 kWh, energy recovery ventilators and dehumidifiers. Photo by <a href="http://jimtetro.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JimTetro.com</a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl56weHHIIuxXf_33lOPtdL0vWveS1-kfOhCHLk1Ul4d5RYsbKv9EYT6_92Vbm9NpKW2_PvO3NnoF3El__zxA_kw6t2_eiYtzngoRCmnZ5Ei22FMgzaa9TLOI7CY78ahKJpfuuNQoguCI/s1600/Home-Energy-Efficient-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Home-Energy-Efficient-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey" border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl56weHHIIuxXf_33lOPtdL0vWveS1-kfOhCHLk1Ul4d5RYsbKv9EYT6_92Vbm9NpKW2_PvO3NnoF3El__zxA_kw6t2_eiYtzngoRCmnZ5Ei22FMgzaa9TLOI7CY78ahKJpfuuNQoguCI/s640/Home-Energy-Efficient-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey.jpg" title="Home-Energy-Efficient-Design-ENJOY-HOUSE-Team-New-Jersey" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;">ENJOY House</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"> by <a href="http://www.solarteamnewjersey.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Team New Jersey</a>:</span></b></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IN;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>“<span lang="IN">Team New Jersey's entry for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, ENJOY</span></i><i><span lang="IN"> </span><span lang="IN">House, suggests a new way of approaching high</span></i><i><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";"></span><span lang="IN">-performance, energy-</span></i><i><span lang="IN">efficient residential</span></i><i><span lang="IN"> </span><span lang="IN">design. Cutting</span></i><i>-<span lang="IN">edge fabrication techniques meet the age</span></i><i>-<span lang="IN">old technology of concrete in its</span></i><i><span lang="IN"> </span><span lang="IN">intelligent design. The roof's inverted</span></i><i><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";"></span><span lang="IN">hip shape is calibrated for optimal solar energy and</span></i><i><span lang="IN"> </span><span lang="IN">rainwater collection, contributing to an architecture informed by performance criteria. </span></i></span></div><br /><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Design Philosophy</span></i></h2><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">The ENJOY House integrates passive strategies, new solar technologies, and contemporary</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="IN">architectural ideas. Built of pre-</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";"></span><span lang="IN">cast concrete insulated panels, the house requires little</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="IN">upkeep compared with traditional stick-</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";"></span><span lang="IN">frame materials. The highly insulated building</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="IN">envelope and passive solar strategies significantly reduce heating and cooling loads. </span></i></div><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Features</span></i></h2><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Team New Jersey aims to create an affordable, functional, energy-efficient house suited to</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><span lang="IN">the climate of New Jersey. To accomplish these goals, the ENJOY House features:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Concrete panels in all roof, wall, and floor assemblies that use varied casting processes</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Perforations that allow for daylighting and dramatically improve thermal performance</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">An inverted-</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif";"></span><span lang="IN">hip roof that allows for rainwater collection. </span></i></div><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Technologies</span></i></h2><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">ENJOY House incorporates strategic technologies, including:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Evacuated solar thermal tubes that heat domestic hot water and provide preheating for the hydronic radiant floor</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Fiberglass-framed windows that are high-performing, energy-efficient, and durable</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">A 9-kW photovoltaic system with a target daily electric output of 36 kWh</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Energy recovery ventilators and dehumidifiers that keep cool air inside the house while providing fresh air from outside. </span></i></div><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Market Strategy</span></i></h2><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">The ENJOY House is intended for a couple that retires to the Jersey shore. With a retiree's needs in mind, the team has designed a 960-ft<sup>2</sup> (89-m<sup>2</sup>) house that is ADA-accessible. Team New Jersey has integrated universal design principles into its architecture to create a house that is accessible to people of all ages and levels of mobility. </span></i></div><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What's Next</span></i></h2><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="IN">Nonprofit organizations in New Jersey as well as private homebuilders have expressed interest in taking possession of the ENJOY House after the competition. Team New Jersey hopes to determine the house's final destination before the start of Solar Decathlon 2011.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”</span></i></div></div></div>

High Performance & Energy Efficient Home, ENJOY HOUSE by Team New Jersey

ENJOY HOUSE has been completed by Team New Jersey for participating US Department of energy solar decathlon in 2011. A main concept of this ...

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Solar Homestead by APPState University

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/solar-homestead-by-appstate-university.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Modern-Home-Design-Solar-Homestead" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6W41jOsRc2_aaFndqha8hr2VehOTfoEhJsiz4GA9tTY7D5vFgI1JWfSPSeXi-pMhbPUzNnevYeqrSSRW4BdGA6Oz7IFcPcvMHpRL9owCgDMGZAM0vjdbIl6OVm7fPbpXZa5wmdjMZum4/s640/Modern-Home-Design-Solar-Homestead.jpg" title="Modern-Home-Design-Solar-Homestead" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://goathouse.blogspot.com/2013/06/solar-homestead-by-appstate-university.html" target="_blank">This modern home design</a>, called Solar Homestead has fully designed by <a href="http://www.appstate.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Appalachian State University</a> for participating US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in 2011. The features of this home design are the high technologies that applied for its energy supply.</span></div><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3DK3b4Ax-r-rOwHTWNsM_PzVZ3TD7y3wO7v42HS8LvgfrYaoln2uY2zWMmhOcrbzYSYe3BpGwwkh7au3Nv16G17IAZmR6heznHACImNZfPgv88xuXRAD3IGOU1bU9bguevd_W_PuE3Y/s1600/Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3DK3b4Ax-r-rOwHTWNsM_PzVZ3TD7y3wO7v42HS8LvgfrYaoln2uY2zWMmhOcrbzYSYe3BpGwwkh7au3Nv16G17IAZmR6heznHACImNZfPgv88xuXRAD3IGOU1bU9bguevd_W_PuE3Y/s640/Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead.jpg" title="Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Inspired by traditional Appalachian settlements is called <a href="http://www.thesolarhomestead.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Solar Homestead</a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a <i>traditional</i> settlement lifestyle that is <i>combined</i> with <i>modern clean-energy technology</i>. There are six outbuilding modules connect to form the Great Porch. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">House features</span>two bedrooms, a <i>day-lit</i> bathroom, <i>energy-efficient appliances</i>, and a versatile living and dining area, also includes an independent flex space that can be used as a home office, art studio, or guest quarters and <i>8.2-kW trellis of bifacial solar cells</i> on outdoor living space. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Solar Homestead</span> house has forty-two <i>bifacial photovoltaic panels</i> to provide solar energy, on-demand solar thermal domestic <i>hot water system</i> provide constant water temperature, and a <i>trombe</i> wall that can store heat and release it at night. This house was designed for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">residents of Asheville</span>, North Carolina by </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Appalachian State University</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and participated in <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_uzg-r-OaX9nwruHFWsEAuhHWs3_H0qxvhIbYE6XGgqNiJNJYhbaR26GgYxJG3j9m4usKryOj5qBoZMnC6-N9xJW7JE5enzr2qWBfHv-CPu6211EMfwK-52izsYrjwgtmvjr0ZP6HsM/s1600/Lounge-Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lounge-Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_uzg-r-OaX9nwruHFWsEAuhHWs3_H0qxvhIbYE6XGgqNiJNJYhbaR26GgYxJG3j9m4usKryOj5qBoZMnC6-N9xJW7JE5enzr2qWBfHv-CPu6211EMfwK-52izsYrjwgtmvjr0ZP6HsM/s640/Lounge-Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead.jpg" title="Lounge-Family-Room-Design-Interior-Solar-Homestead" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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