Week 9

Modeler- Tyler

Plugging in values into the simulation to model various energy saving outcomes.

Results:

One Drexel Plaza before:

	Total Energy [kWh]	Energy Per Total Building Area [kWh/m2]	Energy Per Conditioned Building Area [kWh/m2]
Total Site Energy	1113795.53	223.56	223.56
Net Site Energy	1113795.53	223.56	223.56
Total Source Energy	3605193.92	723.62	723.62
Net Source Energy	3605193.92	723.62	723.62

One Drexel Plaza After bringing it up to code:

	Total Energy [kWh]	Energy Per Total Building Area [kWh/m2]	Energy Per Conditioned Building Area [kWh/m2]
Total Site Energy	792216.48	159.01	159.01
Net Site Energy	792216.48	159.01	159.01
Total Source Energy	2746383.66	551.24	551.24
Net Source Energy	2746383.66	551.24	551.24

Piezoelectric Systems- Rahul

The word piezoelectricity means electricity resulting from pressure. basic piezo sensor is often used for flex, touch, vibration and shock measurements. Converting energy from mechanical stress and load is one of the most promising ways to integrate the energy harvesting module, thanks to the high power density of piezoelectric materials. 
Israeli engineers are about to begin testing a 100 metre stretch of roadway embedded with a network of Piezo Electric Generators (IPEG™). The piezoelectric effect converts mechanical strain into electrical current or voltage and the system is expected to scale up to 400 kilowatts from a 1-kilometre stretch of dual carriageway. Innowattech's generators are embedded at a depth of about 5 cm; the area where the compression stress is maximal. For our 

Green Roof- Preet

Green roofs are not only aesthetically pleasing, but they also:
Reduce city “heat island” effect
Reduce CO2 impact
Reduce summer air conditioning cost
Reduce winter heat demand
Potentially lengthen roof life 2 to 3 times
Treat nitrogen pollution in rain
Negate acid rain effect
Help reduce volume and peak rates of stormwater

Lights-Shi Yuyang

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Water turbines- Karan

Week 8

We said we were going to meet on Tuesday 5/22 at 4pm.

For Tuesday, we tried to decide on two things: 

• Who is going to be responsible for what.
• Decide how many technologies you are going to research

Assign certain technologies to certain members so that they are the "experts" for those technologies (they will research the properties of technologies for the modeler). Define one person as the the "expert modeler" who will run the simulations.  Also define who will organize the administrative pieces of the work, such as organizing the reporting and presentations.

Lights-Shi Yuyang

Water turbines- Karan

Piezoelectric Systems- Rahul

Modeler- Tyler

Green Roof- Preet
Powepoint/Report- Eric

Week 6

The group set up meeting with the adviser, Liam Hendricken. When the group met, the adviser gave us plenty on help and helped us get organised.

we set up regular meeting times and decided what we needed to talk about and discuss the next time we meet up.

For our first meeting, our adviser gave us generic models of office buildings that he already used for modeling energy sufficient systems.

He also gave us Energy Plus model so that we can simulate the different types of energy saving models. In the model we can change the thickness of the window, change the lighting of the building, and also adding shading to the model itself. 

Week 4

The group was preparing for the presentation for Week 5.
To start of with we sorted out who will do what for the slide show.
Since there was no rubric posted anywhere for the Presentation, as a group we decided to use the same rubric that we used for ENGR-102 Presentation.

Preet- Slide 1, 9
Shi- Slide 2, 10
Tyler- Slide 3,
Karan- Slide 4
Eric- Slide 5, 6
Rahul- Slide 7, 8, 11

For the presentation, we will discuss:
-Problem Statement
-Design Constraints
-Initial Design Proposal
-Second Week Interation
-Final Design
-Competition Results
-Summary Conclusions