Tour Solacity’s Sustainable Building
825 Van Buren St, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0, Canada
45.02287
-75.61936730000002
Description
Tour Solacity’s Straw-Bale, Passive Solar, Geothermal, Hydronic Building
Get a tour of Solacity’s 9000 sq ft office and warehouse and hear all about its energy-efficiency building measures. The techniques used in the Solacity building will work just as well, at a smaller scale, for residential construction. They make for a VERY energy efficient building that is very comfortable to work in and (from a business perspective) cheap to operate.
The Solacity building includes:
The building is all-electrical, no fossil fuels, with net-zero or net-positive potential.
The office section uses passive solar as part of its heating.
The office makes use of day-lighting (natural light) through a light-shelf and large windows.
Insulation values well beyond the industry standard.
The building is very air-tight (a measured value of just 1.1 ACH50).
Strawbale for 3 of the 4 walls.
Heating from a geothermal heat-pump, with in-floor hydronic heating.
The roof area is optimized for 100kW of solar PV (yet to be installed).
The roof is covered with highly reflecting galvalume, to keep solar heat gain in summer minimal.
Energy-efficient lighting through LED and T5 fixtures.
Very highly insulating triple-pane windows.
No need for air-conditioning in summer due to high thermal mass and insulation.
Hot-dogs and drinks will be served!
Read much more about the Solacity building’s construction and design, with lots of pictures.
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Start:
2016-09-11T10:00:00-04:00
End:
2016-09-11T15:00:00-04:00
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