Designing High Performance Homes
Workshop 14
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Saturday, May 22
8:30am to 12:30pm

Registration Price: $100 on or before April 1, $110 after April 1, $120 on-site
You DO NOT have to register for the conference to register for a workshop. On the Conference Fees page in the registration system, choose "Workshops, Tours, Special Events Only."
Presented by: Murray Milne, Research Professor, UCLA Department of Architecture and Pablo LaRoche, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor for the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at California State Polytechnic University
Description: High Performance Homes can be designed to minimize their consumption of energy, their cost of operation, and their generation of green house gasses. In this Hands-On workshop you will learn how to quickly design and then fine-tune your home using the latest version of HEED (Home Energy Efficient Design), one of the most popular and user friendly design tools. Please bring your laptop, MAC or PC, and you will experience how to use HEED’s fill-in-the-squares multi-story floor planner, click and drag window placement, and graphic plots of Annual Energy Consumption (kBTU), Carbon Footprint (CO2), or Annual Cost for Fuel and Electricity.
Materials to be provided to attendees include a handout and a copy of the software loaded on each person’s laptop (PC or MAC)
Who should attend? Architects, Builders, Energy Consultants, Homeowners, Educators, Students

4 AIA CEU's - Health & Welfare and Sustainability - available for this session

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PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP
People who attend this hands-on workshop will come away with an understanding of the principles involved in designing and successively refining their home for any climate in a way that will optimize its performance according to whichever criteria they select: Energy Consumption, Energy Cost, or Green House Gas Generation.

CONTENT OF THE WORKSHOP
High Performance Sustainable Homes minimize their consumption of energy, their generation of greenhouse gasses, and their cost of operation. In this Hands-On Workshop you will learn how to quickly design and then "fine-tune" your home for optimal performance using the latest release of HEED (Home Energy Efficient Design), a powerful, free, user-friendly design tool.

In this workshop you will learn to use HEED’s newest graphic drawing technique that lets you easily describe a home of almost any shape. You can then click and drag windows onto any elevation and rotate the building to any orientation. Selecting from check lists of building assemblies and glazing makes it easy to define your home’s construction. HEED’s Basic Design options show you easy-to-compare bar charts of your annual heating, cooling, fans, lights, plug loads, and water heating in terms of annual Energy Costs, annual kBTUH, or total CO2 Generation. HEED also contains a set of Advanced Design options that allow experienced users to enter all the most complex building design data and that shows many more graphic screens including a detailed hour-by-hour picture of indoor temperature, air changes, component loads, energy consumed, and costs. Three-dimensional bar charts show the differences between all nine schemes according to dozens of different variables. HEED also includes multiple thermal zones, infiltration and ventilation inputs compatible with blower door testing, and automatically drawn pitched roofs. HEED gives you the Percentage Reduction of Green House Gasses as required by the 2010 Imperative and the 2030 Challenge. In this workshop we will show you how to load the 8760 hour EnergyPlus climate data for thousands of stations around the world..

Please bring your notebook computer, PC or MAC, and we will install HEED for you. CEUs are available.

PRESENTERS’ CURRENT POSITIONS AND EXPERTISE

Murray Milne is Research Professor at UCLA Department of Architecture and also teaches in the Building Science program at USC.

Pablo La Roche is Associate Professor Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor for the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at California State Polytechnic University.