Term Project

My group consists of Issa Haddad, Mitchell Butler and me, Junwah Ng. For our term project, we decided to do the topic about green and intelligent buildings. This is a great topic for us considering our senior project also correlates with green/intelligent buildings. Our senior project is about trying to make a zero net building. This means zero run off, zero energy use, and zero environmental impact. Our site is a small 2-1/2 acre land in the Mantua district of Philadelphia, not far from Drexel University. To achieve this goal of a zero net building, we have chosen many different types of systems; photovoltaic, passive solar, earth sheltering, green roofs and much more. Through this term project we would like to distinguish the difference between green and intelligent buildings. In an article I’ve read it seems that “green” buildings have more to do with being LEED certified than anything else and intelligent buildings are to be more on the technological side. But more research is needed to really understand the differences. By defining what a green/intelligent building is, we would be able to consider which type of building design would best fit our senior project. Whether it would be more beneficial for our building to be 100% green, 100% intelligent, or even a combination of the both. Furthermore we would like to also include the use of BIM for our senior design. We would integrate the many uses of Revit that we’ve heard about in class and put them into the design of the building. Probably making a model that analysis each system to optimize the efficiency of the building. Kayleigh's blogged that she is also doing her term project with her senior design as well. Her project is slightly different then ours, she is making a sustainable elementary school while ours is making a zero net building much smaller then a school. I find it really great that someone is also using Revits full potential, probably even more so than us considering her experience with Revit. Overall if the outcome of this term project is successful, then our findings will alter the course of our design for senior project.

http://www.costar.com/josre/pdfs/CoStar-JOSRE-Green-Study.pdf