9.4 : High Performance Buildings
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Case Study, The
Cambria Department of Environmental Protection Office Building, Ebensburg,
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| Building Design |
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| Floor Area: |
34,500 SF |
Floors: |
2 |
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| Open office
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File storage area |
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Two small labratories |
Conference rooms |
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| Break room |
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Two mechanical rooms |
Telecom room |
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| Shell |
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| Material: |
Triple Pane, low-e with Aluminum Frames and Wood
Frames |
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| Triple Pane |
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Triple Pane |
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| U-Factor |
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0.24 |
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U-Factor |
0.26 |
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| Wall/Roof |
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Primary Material |
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R-Value |
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Wall : |
Insulating Concrete Forms |
27.0 |
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Roof: |
Decking and Insulation |
33.0 |
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| HVAC |
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Total Capacities(thousand Btu/hr) |
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| 12 Ground
Source Heat Pumps |
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644 |
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| 12 Auxiliary
Electric Resistance Heaters |
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382 |
(3) |
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| Open Office
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0.75 |
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| Office Area
Task Lighting(4): |
0.5 |
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| PV System: |
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18.2 kW grid-tie system (5) |
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| Net Annual
Energy Usage (thousand Btu/SF*year): |
36.0 |
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| Note(s): |
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Office space is for 100 people. This accounts for approximately 20,000 SF of
the total building floorspace. 2) Cooling capacity 3) Auxiliary heating
capacity. 4) Task lighting is in addition to the open office area LPD and is
only in select cubicals and offices. 5) Includes 17.2 kW of roof PV array and
two 0.5 KW ground level single axis tracking PV arrays. |
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DOWNLOAD TABLE AS PDF XLS
Related Tables:
Sources:
NREL, Lessons Learned from Case Studies of Six High-Performance Buildings, June 2006, p. 5 Table A-2 p. 130
| NREL, Analysis of the Design and Energy Performance of the Pennsylvania Department of Enverionmental Proctection Cambria Office Building, March 2005, p
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