Site and Neighborhood Design for Energy Conservation: Five Case Studies

摘要

The objective of the program is to help design communities with energy conservation emphasized. A community for energy conserving purposes is any complex of buildings and open spaces used by large numbers of people and connected by networks for moving the people as well as messages, goods, and services. The networks may be transportation routes, communication links, utility pipelines, or similar connections. Business or residential districts, multi-use planned unit developments, or office complexes as well as municipalities, urban and regional areas may be considered communities within this context. In each of five cases studies - Radisson, New York; Burke Centre, and Greenbrier, Virginia; Shenandoah, Georgia; and the Woodlands, Texas - the design teams prepared alternative energy conservation plans concurrently with conventional site designs on adjacent properties. The alternative energy plans are the products of systematic efforts to identify, evaluate, and incorporate innovative energy systems and site design options into developments and areas where they are both realistic and marketable. The interdisciplinary teams selected to undertake the preparation of these case study plans are centered around the developer; with the land planning, landscape architectural, and other design professionals generally associated with large scale land development as consultants. The role of utilities, development regulators, and the energy specialist became an integral part of the process and of each of the individual teams. These study teams have conducted comparative evaluations of their energy conservation alternative plans and the conventional plans. Details of the program and results are presentedd. (ERA citation 07:047283)