Building Envelope:
I’ve really been working on incorporating a curtainwall system into my building to have natural light in my building. When I first started working on my building, it looked like a big gray lump, so I think having the glazing not only works with the building energy, but also bring a big design element as well. I also want to focus on the thermal properties of my building, so using exterior EIFS walls along with the glazing. I have been playing around with the properties of these, and will continue to do so. In offices, conference rooms, and other spaces, I am making sure that there are windows available as well. I added a green roof to my lower roof, but need to look into including parapet walls to that. I want to start adding a few architectural features as well.
- Additional window shades
- Canopies at the upstairs café and downstairs garden. I have one currently upstairs but it is a bit boring.
- Extend the roofing overhang to offer additional shading
I also ran a solar analysis through Revit and this is what I generated. I don’t necessarily want to cover the entire roof with panels so I might need to scale this back. This analysis includes 80% coverage of the roof currently.
Energy Model:
Running my current building model through Insight generated the current performance.
This was honestly surprising to me because I haven’t been focusing too much yet on my building performance, more so just getting a building put together that I am happy with that looks good. I would definitely like to improve this as much as I can. The main things that I would like to focus on are:
- Rotating the building by 90 degrees
- 0.3 W/SF lighting efficiency
- Adding daylighting and occupancy controls
- 0.6 W/SF plug load efficiency
- Using ASHRAE package terminal heat pumps (not sure if this is possible?)
- 16% PV panel efficiency
- 20 year PV panel payback limit
- 60% PV panel coverage
Here is what my EUI meter is at now with all of those adjustments calculated in:
The key tiles driving this are the occupancy, lighting, power, HVAC, and PV tiles. I’ve found that the building envelope related tiles really don’t do a lot when you play around with them.
Daylight Analysis:
I tried running the Lighting Analysis for Insight on my model, but it said it required a credit which I did not have, so I chose to do the illuminance renderings instead. Here are three key areas:
Downstairs Lobby:
1st Floor Hallway
2nd Floor Seminar Room
I think that upstairs might have better natural light than downstairs according to these renderings, but I still want to play around with this. The building still doesn’t have ceilings added in yet so that might make things a little bit darker.
Here is the link to my design journal:
https://acc.autodesk.com/docs/files/projects/a1aab0b7-fb90-4335-b850-011955780722?folderUrn=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Afs.folder%3Aco.1_rC-AtOTLaJ71uU2viHkw&entityId=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Adm.lineage%3Aaa5MLGAgSGiAbfm8v9CP_Q&viewModel=detail&moduleId=folders