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Module 3 - Project Goals Targets & Strategies

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List your three or four guiding design goals using this format for each goal:

Goal 1: Sustainable Heating and Cooling

• Measure:  Energy Saved per Year and Emissions Saved
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: 70% of heating and cooling without traditional air conditioning
• desired / target value: 90% of heating and cooling without traditional air conditioning
• Strategies:
• Using geothermal heat pumps to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer
• A second design strategy for achieving this goal: Insulating the building with earth


Goal 2: Water Sponge

• Measure:  The ability to soak up excess water from 500year storm events
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: a site that can absorb up to 10 inches of water on the area of the site
• desired / target value: a site that can absorb up to 16 inches of water in the area of the site
• Strategies:
• Building into the ground and covering the top of the building by earthworks and plant life.
• A second design strategy for achieving this goal: Using absorbing concrete or porous pavers that allows plants to grow through them


Goal 3: Accessible to all New Yorkers

• Measure:  The space can be totally wheelchair accessible
• Targets:
• minimally acceptable value: 80% of the space is accessible to wheelchairs
• desired / target value: The building should be 90% accessible by wheelchair barring janitorial and mechanical rooms
• Strategies:
• Following ADA guidelines to design spaces. If the building has multiple floors, then having elevators.
• A second design strategy for achieving this goal: The building could all be on one level.
• Another thing is whether the building will have a walkable lawn. If it has a sloped lawn then it would probably not be wheelchair accessible.