The home’s energy saving features which were selected with the hot-humid Florida climate in mind, include:
FSEC has installed instrumentation and plans to display the data on the web. The measured energy use will help determine if the energy features are working out as planned. More info at http://www.notsobigshowhouse.com/
Kit Home Builders West was the builders of the Zero
Energy Manufactured Home in response to an RFP issued
by the Bonneville Power Authority in partnership with
BAIHP staff in Washington and Idaho. See Zero Energy
Manufactured Home in the Research section of this publication.
In 2004, Marlette was involved with a new 32 home multi-story development called Kokanee Creek (Figure 29). BAIHP staff conducted field evaluation on the first set of homes and provided technical assistance to Marlette and the developer HomeSight, related to the envelope and duct leakage improvements.
Nogi
Gardens is a 75-home community located in southeast Seattle
The project contains the first two-story, HUD Code attached “townhouse
homes.” (Figure
30) All the homes have been built by Marlette Homes
in Hermiston, OR to Super Good Cents/Energy Star specifications.
A blower door test of the building envelope showed 5.0
ACH at 50PA, average for a manufactured home in the Pacific
Northwest. Duct leakage is very low, due to Marlette’s
use of mastic and duct risers.
This project was a community revitalization program aimed at lessening poverty density by demolishing dilapidated public housing and replacing it with new, less dense housing. In this HUD-sponsored inner city redevelopment project, about 860 public housing units were to be torn down and replaced with 450 new units. The new units would have included duplexes, townhouses, and single-family homes. As part of a sustainability team, FSEC participated in the initial design charette which reviewed project home designs, made architectural recommendations on wall and roof assemblies, exterior finishes, and other energy-related design and construction features. During 2002, FSEC provided assistance to Miami-Dade Department of Environmental Resources Management when they emphasized the importance of Building America principles and techniques to the Miami-Dade Housing Authority. The Housing Authority conducted a mandatory value-engineering meeting to ensure that their Hope VI Project would meet the available budget. FSEC staff, as well as other stakeholders, took part in housing discussions and analysis to ensure that the Building America principles and techniques specified early in the project would be considered and not engineered out of the project. Unfortunately, this project never got past the design
stage due to a lack of cooperation among existing residents
of the area. Midgard Associates is a new developer partner aquired by BAIHP in November 2004. The developer plans to develop a community called East Bay, in the Florida panhandle, with ground to break sometime in Summer 2005. Although the developers will not be building any of the homes, they have a wealth of building knowledge in the hot/humid climate, and are responsible for the construction of the Captain Planet Zero Energy Cottage. The developers have a vision to oversee development of a high-performance, sustainable community that responds to the environment of Florida’s gulf coast. They have enlisted the assistance of BAIHP to help develop a builder program, including home specifications and performance reviews. They have also inquired about having BAIHP develop and deliver training to the selected builders. Midgard Associates have expressed an interest in all homes achieving green certification, and implementing other innovative community scale measures such as community scale geothermal heat pumps. In March 2005, Midgard toured select developments in
Central Florida including Lakewood Ranch to see how others
have implemented builder programs that emphasize high
performance home construction. The visit culminated at
FSEC, where collaborations and partnership was discussed.
Discussions are currently underway for the design of
a demonstration/info center. This will be similar in
nature to the Captain Planet Zero Energy Cottage, yet
be more reminiscent of the scale and architecture of
other homes to be built within East Bay. Disclaimer:
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