Passive Solar Design Simplified
Presentation
- Overview and Definitions(Video 1)
- Direct Gain Systems(Video 2)
- Indirect & Isolated Gain Systems(Video 3)
- Building Orientation(Video 4)
- Green building strategies(Video 5)
- Case Study(Video 6)
Transcript of Overview
and Definitions
- Sustainability is ensuring that our actions and decisions today do not destroy the opportunities of future generations
- Buildings today consume~40% of our energy causing huge ecological impacts
- The sun provides the earth more than 10000times the energy we currently use
- Passive solar will help you save over 80% of heating and cooling bill and will ensure your home’s confort by making it less dependent to traditional sources and thus giving you better return than most investments and can also be of any architectural style
- Passive solar is the use of the sun in a building(without using technology)
- Active solar is using the sun to create hot water or electricity(with the help of technology)
- PV –short for photovoltaic(using active solar to create electricity)
- Solar Thermal is using active solar to create hot water
- Direct Gain Systems –heat the actual living spaces of a home and are used for mild to cold climate
- Indirect Gain Systems-heat only a part of the home spaces but the heat is then redirected to other parts of the home and are used for mild to very cold climates
- Isolated Gain Systems heat adjacent spaces and are used for cold to very cold climates
- Keep in mind that you can combine the systems to improve your home’s passive design in terms of comfort and health maintaining a reasonable cost of build .
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