Description

Traditional military family housing acquisition, design, and construction procedures have resulted in the procurement of low-end, tract-type housing in neighbourhoods that are not energy or resource efficient. In response to this need for greater energy and environmental awareness in the planning, development, and operations of military family housing facilities, the US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories have developed the Green Neighbourhood/Cool Communities (GN/CC) project. The GN/CC project is designed to develop a prototypical process for constructing family housing neighbourhoods that meet the daily needs of the military family while minimising negative environmental impacts and reducing the general energy consumption of the facilities. A multidisciplinary design team is assembled to integrate current methodologies and technologies that focus on life-cycle costs, the reduction of negative environmental impacts, energy conservation, and quality of life improvements in military family housing. Results indicate that the integrated design approach yields increased building energy and resource efficiency at competitive costs.

KEYWORDS: year 1996, energy conservation, energy consumption, military works, housing, designing, water conservation, environment, urban areas, planning, town planning, USA, roads, costs, economics, maintenance

Citation: Symposium, ASHRAE Trans. 1996, Vol.102, Part 2

Product Details

Published:

1996

File Size:

1 file , 1.1 MB

Product Code(s):

D-16669