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Habitat for Humanity Final Report Spring 2001 Tuesday, April 24, 2001 Sponsor Contact: Doug Taylor Habitat for Humanity 420 South First Street Lafayette, IN 47901 423-4590 http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hfh/web_project Prathima Venkatesan Jimmy Johnson Email: email@example.com Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: (765)491-7850 Phone: (765)742-8408 Lisa Major Nick Henthorn Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: (765) 743-8013 Phone: (765) 495-5869 Donnie Austin Masaaki Atsuta Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: (765) 743-6132 Phone: (765) 495-7646 Dave Russell Matthew Selvey Email: email@example.com Email: email@example.com Phone: (765) 464-1333 Phone: (765) 495-1262 Brian Waller Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: (765) 746-5633 Executive Summary Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization that builds houses for low-income families. They build two, three, and four bedroom homes and customize them to the owner's preferences. Habitat sells the home for the amount it costs to build it and provides the owner with an interest free loan. Prospective owners are required to work 250 hours for each adult member of the family and attend workshops on home maintenance. The EPICS Habitat for Humanity Team is divided into two main sub teams. The objective of the EPICS Architectural/Web Team is to increase the efficiency of the home selection process and data management inventory at Habitat for Humanity. The objective of the EPICS Energy Team is to provide efficient solutions to reduce utility costs for the homeowner. This is done with the assistance of a software program called Energy-10. The Web Team works to make all information from the Architectural Team and Energy Team available on the Internet. They have produced a World Wide Web page with three main parts for use by Habitat for Humanity. The first is the Home Selection Guide (HSG), which serves as a database where users can "point and click" to view different styles of homes. The Architectural Team used existing Habitat architectural plans, and has produced a series of standardized floor plans using 3-D Home Architect Deluxe 3.0 software. This software package allows the team to design several houses quickly with inside and outside views of each home. The results are then integrated into the HSG which displays the floor plans, exterior elevations, utility cost breakdowns, and electrical wiring layouts of each home in the standardized book of plans. The second part of the web page is the Home Construction Guide (HCG), which assists construction managers by providing a construction timeline and bill of materials for each floor plan in the HSG. The Architectural Team consulted the Building Construction Management (BCM) Department at Purdue University to create a materials list for each home. With their help, a simple program in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet was generated to produce accurate materials lists. This program allows for easy evaluation of house designs and homebuilding costs. In addition to the materials list program, a database of property that is owned by Habitat for Humanity (i.e. leftover and donated materials) is being produced. This will enable the Habitat for Humanity staff to cross-reference materials that they need to purchase and those that 1 they already have in their warehouse. The HCG also includes a Volunteer Tutorial that gives an overview of tasks that volunteers or future Habitat homeowners might perform while building a house. The third portion of the website is the Home Efficiency Options (HEO) page which serves as a comparison between current energy options being used by Habitat and possibly more efficient alternatives, as delivered by the Energy Team. The Energy Team brainstorms for new ways to save the homeowner money on utility bills. This is done with the help of Energy-10 software. With specific parameters of each house, Energy-10 simulates the weather of Indianapolis over an entire year. The parameters of each home depend on the specifications of the home itself. The first part of the semester was used to familiarize new team members with the Energy-10 software. The Energy Team concentrated on three main projects this semester. They were carbon monoxide testing, thermal imaging scanning of existing Habitat for Humanity homes, and installing programmable thermostats into Habitat for Humanity houses. Now that the team has a good idea of how these modifications will affect the energy usage of each house, and how to model them in Energy 10, they can be incorporated into the house variants. Energy-10 estimates that a setback thermostat with central air-conditioning will save homeowners anywhere from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars per year. Testing for carbon monoxide in the Habitat for Humanity houses proved that the levels of carbon monoxide were well below those required by EPA standards, which is 9 PPM over and 8-hour period and 35 PPM for a one-hour period. Taking thermal images of the houses shows where the most critical energy losses occur. This test proved that the IR camera would be a great asset to the Energy Team in the future. 2 Table of Contents Page Introduction…………………………………………..……………………………………………4 Project Tasks…………………………………………………………………………..…………..5 Architectural/Web Team: 3-D Home Architectural Deluxe 3.0 Floor Plans……………………….…….…...5 Materials List Program……..……………………………………….…….………6 Home Selection Guide……………………………………………..……….……..6 Home Efficiency Options……………………………………….………...………8 Home Construction Guide…………………………………….………….…….…8 Point of Sale Database Project………..………………….………...…….…….….9 Energy Team: Setback Thermostat………………………………….…………………..……….11 Past Project Conclusions/Analysis………..……………...………………………13 Thermal Imaging Scan of House Exterior…………..…….……………………..15 CO Testing………………………………………………….……………………16 Transition Plan…………………………………………………………………………………...17 Semester Outcomes………………………………………………………………………………18 Reflections………………………………………………………………………….……………20 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………...…………..23 References……………………………………………..………………………………………...24 3 Introduction The EPICS program has been working with Habitat for Humanity for several years to assist Habitat in improving their quality of service. The Habitat for Humanity EPICS team has been able to provide Habitat with services that are helpful in the home selection process. After a family is chosen for a new home, Habitat for Humanity provides the family with several choices of home designs using the Standardized Book of Floor Plans and Home Selection Guide produced during previous semesters. With the type of home selected, materials lists are used to estimate the cost of the home, the Home Energy Options web page is used to discuss efficiency options, and appropriate construction materials are purchased to start the building process. During the building process, volunteer tutorials from the Home Construction Guide aide the volunteers and homeowners in understanding the home construction process. This report describes the creation of home designs used in the Standardized Book of Floor Plans and Home Selection Guide, the steps required to produce materials lists and volunteer tutorials found in the Home Construction Guide, and what is necessary in making the web page more easily navigable and accessible to Habitat for Humanity and the affiliated members. Also included in the report is a description of the structure and purpose of the newly developed database project that will help increase the tracking of donations at Habitat for Humanity's resale store. In order to reduce the cost of owning the home, the Energy Team has conducted energy- utilization analyses of current house plans and materials. According to Habitat for Humanity International's website (http://www.habitat.org), low-income homeowners pay (by percentage) more for utilities than middle and upper class homeowners do. This fact illustrates the large benefit that utility cost information and energy cost reduction can have for current and future Habitat homeowners. The goal of the Energy Team is to reduce the costs of energy usage for the homeowners by incorporating cost saving measures into Habitat for Humanity house plans. The team's main purpose this semester is not only to research more energy efficient ways to build and maintain Habitat for Humanity homes, but also to re-analyze projects that the energy team has done in the past, perform follow up analyses on them, and encourage Habitat for Humanity to begin using the information and findings. 4 The Energy Team's semester has been concentrated on three different projects. These projects include thermal imaging of existing Habitat for Humanity homes, carbon monoxide (CO) testing, and analyzing a setback thermostat. The thermal imaging project was comprised of helping Habitat for Humanity locate "cold spots" in one of their remodeling projects. This task was completed in early February. Taking thermal imaging pictures can be a big asset to the Energy Team in the future. This will allow Habitat for Humanity and the EPICS Team to find the areas of the house where heat loss occurs. The carbon monoxide testing was a safety project that was done to determine if carbon monoxide levels were reaching dangerous levels in the houses, as houses get more airtight. The main goal of the setback thermostat project was to re-analyze the energy savings, and get them installed in the houses. The setback thermostats were modeled in Energy-10 [5], revealing that they would be a good investment in Habitat for Humanity homes. The thermostats were also installed into three different houses, two with central air-conditioning and one without. Data will be collected on these beginning in the summer of 2001, and running through the winter of 2001. To help the homeowners get more comfortable with the setback thermostats, a tutorial was constructed to assist them in programming and everyday usage. Project Tasks Architectural/Web Team The Architectural/Web Team's objectives were established after consulting Doug Taylor of Habitat for Humanity. He helped the team determine the number of floor plans that were to be produced, how precise the materials list program would need to be, the desired amount of information available in the Home Selection Guide, the level of information available in volunteer tutorial portion of the Home Construction Guide, and the level of public accessibility to the Home Efficiency Options page. All of these tasks are continuations of tasks from previous semesters. 3-D Home Architect Deluxe 3.0 Floor Plans: In previous semesters a standardized book of floor plans was produced, which held thirty-one floor plans of homes that Habitat might build for a future homeowner. This book is continuously updated with more plans to reflect the different needs of both Habitat for Humanity and the homeowners. Next semester, new floor plans will be produced as Habitat makes them available. 5 The generation of these plans, following the standards created in fall of 1999, will serve as a teaching aide for the new members of the team who need to learn the 3D Home Architect software. When completed, these plans will be added both to the Standardized Book of Plans and the Home Selection Guide. Materials List: In the spring of 2000 a materials list program was developed using an Excel spreadsheet to accurately calculate the quantity and cost of materials required in the construction of Habitat for Humanity homes. With the help of John Sears, the construction supervisor, and Ray Dubea, the repair supervisor, of Lafayette Habitat for Humanity, formulas were developed and entered into this spreadsheet. The formulas that were developed estimate the quantity of each particular building material used in a Habitat home and calculate the estimated cost for it to be built. The spreadsheet will be capable of generating a complete materials list for a home based on the answers to several basic questions about the house. Simple questions about the home layout, locations of all major utilities, and extra items included beyond the standardized version of the house plan will allow the calculation of a full materials list for the desired home. Habitat homes are all very similar on the inside, but have subtle differences on the outside. This gives each homeowner the feeling of having a unique house. Essentially there are five different front porch styles (gable end offset, gable end centered, interior porch, side porch offset, and side porch centered). Each of these variations requires special calculations. Although these calculations have been developed in the past semester, a universal program that is applicable to all Habitat style homes is still being developed. The material prices on the list were obtained from Von Tobel Lumber and Hardware in Lafayette, Indiana. This is the supplier that Habitat for Humanity purchases most of their lumber from. When all of the material prices are gathered, an estimate of the total cost of the house can be obtained. Appendix I contains the most recent version of the materials list program. Home Selection Guide: The house plans discussed previously are available in both the Standardized Book of Floor Plans and the Home Selection Guide section of the web. The Home Selection Guide (HSG) is a point- and-click interface with the different home plans available from Lafayette Habitat for Humanity. 6 The HSG presents the floor plan, exterior elevations, estimated utility cost breakdowns, and the electrical wiring layout of each home. The homeowner will be able to compare operating costs and functionality of different homes, and therefore be able to make a more informed purchasing decision. By presenting the floor plans and exterior elevations, the homeowner will not have to wait for an architect to prepare plans for each home. The homeowner will instantly be able to see a computer-rendered image of what the home will look like. For each home size, there are many design variations that are available. All of the variations of a particular size are shown together on a common page so easy comparison can be made. The HSG also presents a detailed analysis of what the utility bills will be for one year. The analysis, which was performed by the Energy Team using the Energy-10 software package, is presented in a simple to understand pie chart. The pie chart breaks down the cost of interior and exterior lights, hot water, heating, cooling, and ceiling fans (Figure 1). There is an "other" section that includes household appliances that do not fit into any of the previously stated categories (a computer, for example). Figure 1 HSG Cost Breakdown 7 Home Efficiency Options: The Home Efficiency Options (HEO) pages (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hfh/web_project/heo/index.htm) contain a collection of studies made by the Energy Team. The Energy Team, using the Energy-10 modeling software, performs analyses of existing Habitat for Humanity house plans. House layouts and building materials are entered, which allows for predictions of home energy usage and costs. After the analysis is complete, the team modifies the houses in Energy-10 by varying construction and equipment parameters to increase the efficiency of the energy use and thus decrease the yearly utility bills. These modifications have included more efficient furnaces, central air conditioning, fluorescent lights, longer roof overhangs, thermostat setbacks, and thicker walls. After these alterations are made, the resulting utility bills are compared to those of the original house, and decisions are made based on yearly savings, cost of the modification, and the pay back period (number of years to payoff the increase in initial cost due to the construction change). The HEO pages are an effort to display the results of these analyses to the Habitat for Humanity directors and staff in a clear and concise manner. A template was constructed in order to standardize the presented material and make it easy to browse. The template split each efficiency option into five areas: objective, background, assumption, results, and conclusion. Each option has its own page, which includes pictures, tables, charts, background material, and the results of the analyses. By demonstrating the cost savings due to certain modifications, all parties involved will be able to see the benefits of incorporating energy saving features into their homes. Lower utility bills will allow the homeowners to save more of their money and spend it on the upkeep of their homes, their families, etc. Home Construction Guide: The Home Construction Guide (HCG) pages (http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hfh/web_project/HCG/INDEX.htm) were designed to assist those who are involved with the construction process. Specifically, the HCG contains a construction timeline, volunteer tutorials, and will contain a materials list for each floor plan. The construction timeline has been created to serve as a resource for construction members. It is set 8 as a standard 10-week build for Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette. A section is highlighted to show the days in which work should be done and completed for a specific task. Also, many of the tasks listed have been set as links to a volunteer tutorial for the particular task. Possible future improvements to the web page may include the capability of user inputs for specific dates, more specific timelines, or the option to download the programs through the Internet. The volunteer tutorials are divided into multiple sections based on their order in the home building process. Each tutorial guides the reader through a step-by-step process necessary to complete the task. Included in each tutorial are an equipment list and a brief outline of the process. This semester, it was found that some of the tutorial links were broken or not functioning. The volunteer tutorials were revised and repaired accordingly. Also, a survey was produced (See Appendix II) with the help of Angel Tazzer, a Teaching Assistant with a B.S. in Information Systems, in order to obtain feedback about the usefulness of the tutorials. Angel has experience with gathering important information and was very helpful in deriving questions that would help us to learn how to make the tutorials more useful. It was concluded from survey feedback that next semester the tutorials would be equipped with diagrams and digital photographs taken from building sites during construction. This will make it easier for volunteers to understand and follow the tutorials. This section of the HCG is one of the sections that will undergo many revisions over time according to the feedback received by Habitat for Humanity of Lafayette and its volunteers. Point of Sales Database Project: Continuing from an idea proposed last semester by Habitat for Humanity, a database for the Habitat resale store has been initiated. The purpose of the database is to organize donor and product information and to make it more easily accessible. The resale store sells materials to the general public that is donated by the community and not usable in Habitat for Humanity homes. Information such as the name and address of the donor of a product and the product description, condition, and price will be stored by the database. This will aid Habitat by simplifying the process of organizing and maintaining the resale store. Two of the new members of the team, Jimmy Johnson and Prathima Venkatesan, who are both studying Computer Engineering, have completed the first design of the database. Through communications with the manager of the resale store, Pam, and another store worker, Ray, the requirements for the database were 9 established. The database was separated into different sections according to the requirements used for data searches and useful information for the organization of products, product types, invoices, and donors. Relationships according to these sections have been established such as there is one product type for many products, many products for one donor, one product for one sold item, many products for one invoice, and also many sold items for one invoice. These relationships are illustrated by a screenshot taken of the relationships tool for this database in Microsoft Access 2000. In Figure A in Appendix III, the data tables can be seen with their data fields inside of them. The lines between the tables point to the specific fields that are related. All but one of the lines has a '1' at one end and an infinity symbol at the other. These show the relationships as described above, one-to-many relationships. The line without symbols represents the one-to-one relationship described above between the products' table and the sold items' table. A menu was created so that the user of the database can interface with the searches and data entry forms without having knowledge of the database creation software or without harming the database or its contents. This is shown by Figure B in Appendix III which is again a screen shot taken from the database. There are three sections to the menu interface created. There is a section, which contains a button for each data entry form. The donor entry form is the top box in Figure C in Appendix III. The second section contains four buttons that each access a query, and each query displays all of the records for one table except for 'All Invoices' button, which combines the 'Sold Item' table and the 'Invoice' table. The 'All Products' query can be seen as the middle box in Figure C in Appendix III. The final section of the menu is a series of fields that are connected to different queries. To use this section, a search criterion is entered into a field and then the button for that field is clicked. This will open a query displaying only the records with the criteria entered. The 'Product Type' search criteria query is the bottom box in Figure C in Appendix III. The database has reached a state of complete functionality, and it would currently meet all of the resale store's organizational needs. Due to the lack of time left in the semester for the team to remain available if problems or bugs arise or to instruct the future users of the database, the implementation of the database will occur at the beginning of next semester. Also, EPICS will donate a computer with the Microsoft Windows operating system to the resale store for the implementation of the database. Next semester there will also be the research and design of a bar coding and labeling system to accompany the database and make the resale store even more easily organized and maintainable. 10 Energy Team Setback Thermostat: A goal of the semester was to analyze and install setback thermostats into Habitat for Humanity houses. Habitat for Humanity had fifteen Honeywell T8600 programmable thermostats donated to them. Energy-10 was capable of modeling a setback thermostat in the houses, and the energy cost savings associated with them. The parameters that Energy-10 required was the corresponding temperatures for the heating and the cooling set back, and the time period that the temperature change would take place. A list of the different parameters that Energy-10 needs, and an example of the output, can be seen in Appendix IV. The thermostat was evaluated for many different temperature changes, ranging from 70oF-58oF to 70oF-66oF. Energy-10 estimated savings anywhere from fifty dollars to eighty dollars per year, depending on the ramping time and the size of the house. A plot of the savings can be seen below in Figure 1. Figure 1: Setback Thermostat Savings 11 The savings seen above correspond to a house of 987 square feet. Savings graphs for houses of different square feet can be seen in Appendix V. Ramping time ranges from zero hours to four hours. Ramping time is simply the time required to make the temperature change. As the chart shows, the most savings can be obtained when the temperature change is instantaneous. As the degree of temperature difference increases, the change in the amount of savings decreases. The savings in Figure 1 is the total energy savings. The explanation to why the savings are not equally spaced is that the other factors that determine the total energy savings do not change linearly with temperature. The second step in analyzing the setback thermostats was to install them into Habitat for Humanity homes. With the help of Habitat for Humanity, three thermostats were installed. Two of the thermostats were installed in homes with central air-conditioning. These houses are located in Lafayette, at 255 Green Street and 1211 Washington Street. One thermostat was installed at 1213 Washington Street, where central air-conditioning was not installed. Data will be collected from these thermostats, starting in the summer, and running until the winter of 2001. The data will be collected via utility bills. These will be compared to other Habitat for Humanity houses in the area that do not have setback thermostats in them. A concern was raised about the potential difficulty that homeowners might have in using the setback thermostat, due to the lack of knowledge using new technology. In order to compensate for this, the Energy Team constructed a tutorial to assist in the programming the daily use of the setback thermostats. The tutorial goes through, step by step, the procedure for programming each of the four basic programs that the thermostat contains. Along with the step-by-step procedure, there are also illustrations in the tutorial to make the homeowner understand the process easier. A copy of the thermostat tutorial is included in Appendix VI of this report. Another concern was the kind of thermostat to purchase after Habitat for Humanity ran out of the donated thermostats. Research was done to determine this. After research and comparing different thermostats, the best choice would be to purchase more of the Honeywell T8600 programmable thermostats. Some of the factors in choosing an adequate thermostat were the cost and the daily functions. A seven-day thermostat was preferred, so that the homeowner 12 could change the temperature on the weekends. There was also an option in changing the temperature for each workday, however this option increased the price for the thermostat to approximately one hundred dollars. The Honeywell T8600 can be programmed for the weekdays, and then for Saturday and Sunday separately. These thermostats can be purchased for approximately fifty dollars. Even at this cost, the payback period is still less than one year, making it a wise investment for the future. Past project conclusions/analysis: One of the team's priorities for this semester was to implement projects from previous semesters into the Habitat for Humanity homes. Although there have been many good recommendations made, they are not being used in the houses. Earlier this semester, the Energy team compiled a list of all of the recommendations, good and bad, that have been made to Habitat for Humanity. The list consists of the projects that were done and the overall recommendations that were made. Some of the projects from previous semesters are being re-evaluated with the intention of bringing about better and more accurate solutions. Recommendations might change due to several factors. One of them is the change in the utility rates, while another could be an inaccurate initial analysis or assumptions that are no longer valid. For the future, the Energy Team intends to present the list of projects to Habitat for Humanity and meet with them to see why these ideas are not being implemented in the houses. If they are not being used, these reasons will be considered in the re-evaluation of previous ideas and conclusions. The intent is to get them implemented into each new house, by meeting customer requirements. The following page is the compilation of previous years' work and the recommendations that were concluded from them: 13 Habitat for Humanity EPICS Energy Team Conclusions (Fall 1996-Fall 2000) Energy Team Projects Recommendation Year Fall 1996 Researched Solar Powered Fan None Researched Geothermal Energy Tested various lighting sources such as more windows and fluorescent bulbs. Spring 1997 More work on solar powered attic fan None Tested more lights Motion Sensor Lights Fall 1997 Attic insulation was studied None Continued work on solar powered attic fan Spring 1998 Blower Door was developed None Fall 1998 Solar cell study was finished No Solar Power Spring 1999 Replaced 2x4 exterior walls with 2x6 walls. No 2X6 Walls Replaced 1-ft. overhangs with 2-ft. overhangs. No 2' Overhangs Replaced window a/c with central a/c Yes Central Air Replaced an 80% efficient furnace with a 90% No 90% efficient furnace. efficiency Fall 1999 Blower Door Testing Yes Thermostat House Modeling Setback Thermostat Set Back analysis Spring 2000 Baseline Evaluation of New Houses Yes to: Annual Utility Cost Breakdowns -Thermostat Temperature Setback/Setup Analysis Setback Window vs. Central Air Conditioning Analysis - Central Air Exterior House Wrap Analysis Thermal Imaging Scan Fall 2000 Cellulose vs. Fiberglass Insulation Yes to: Caulking Wall Joints - Cellulose Attic Fan - Caulk wall Window Film joints 14 Thermal Imaging Scan: Another study conducted this semester involved the use of an Avio TVS-110 thermal imaging camera. Habitat for Humanity is renovating a house, which was donated to them, and had made changes to the insulation, windows and the exterior of the home. With the use of the thermal imaging camera, the effects of these changes on the home were examined by studying the exterior surface temperatures of the home before and after the changes. The primary focus was on the windows, doors and exterior walls. The camera showed a significant temperature gradient through the windows and around the doors, as expected. Colder temperatures were found in the corners and below the windows, compared to the walls above windows. These temperature differences ranged anywhere between 2 and 20 F. An exterior wall that had new insulation and drywall installed increased the temperature by approximately three degrees. An interesting observation was comparing the wall by a door and the border of the door lacking insulation. There was a 20ºF difference. The drawback from the analysis was performing it during the day. The sun shining through the windows could have affected the readings. If the analysis were done in the evening, the camera would have shown a more definite temperature difference. The indoor vs. outdoor temperature difference was 30ºF. The temperature readings should be performed before dawn or after sunset for the best analysis to minimize the outside interference. An example of a thermal image picture can be seen below in the Figure 2. The areas of main interest are the red, and green sections. These are areas of greater temperature differences, which means greater heat leak. 15 Figure 2: Thermal Imaging Scan In addition to the results obtained from the thermal imaging scan, a calculation was performed to determine the heat lost through a single paned window due to conduction. This was performed assuming perfectly sealed windows and a thermal conductivity (k) of 0.058 W/mK [4]. The driving equation used was: kAT q l where q is the conduction through the window, the area (A) is 15 ft2, the change in temperature across the window pane ( T ) is 70F, and the thickness of the pane (l) is ¼ inches. This calculation and the engineering model of the window can be found in Appendix VIII. The conduction was found to be 266.6 Watts. From this result, it can be concluded that a significant amount of heat is lost through the windows with this temperature gradient. This is also reflected in Figure 2 above by the white coloring at the windows. However, the assumption that the windows are perfectly sealed underestimates the heat losses from the Habitat homes. CO Testing: It was brought to our attention during a project partner meeting, that Habitat for Humanity was concerned about the potential danger of unacceptable levels of carbon monoxide gas in their homes. The reason for concern was due to the relative "tightness" of Habitat's homes, and the fact that there are not any carbon monoxide alarms in the homes. From blower door tests conducted previously by our EPICS team, the number of air changes per hour in a home is roughly 0.3 ACH (air changes per hour). ASHRAE standard 62 recommend that some form of mechanical ventilation may be required for houses this tight. Carbon Monoxide gas buildup was 16 the greatest concern because at high concentrations (above 400 ppm [1]) it can be fatal. The buildup of this toxic gas can be caused by any improperly vented combustion source such as gas water heaters, stoves, and furnaces. One potential culprit brought to our attention was the exhaust from the gas water heater. The water heater in Habitat's homes exhausts an open flue that relies on the fact that heated air is less dense than the surrounding air so it will rise through the flue and exit the house. Habitat was concerned that when the dryer was turned on that the pressure difference caused by the exhaust from the dryer actually drew air in from the flu instead of venting the exhaust gasses. To investigate this potential problem, our team decided to rent carbon monoxide testers and to record levels of carbon monoxide gas in Habitat's homes. When we arrived to test the homes, (259, 263 Green St.), no carbon monoxide gas was detected because the windows were opened so the house was well ventilated. So then it was decided to leave the CO tester in the home (259 Green) overnight while all the windows were closed and the dryer was running. When the CO tester was retrieved, the maximum reading overnight was 3 parts per million (PPM). The EPA standards [2] on safe CO gas concentrations are a maximum exposure of 9 PPM over and 8-hour period and 35 PPM for a one-hour period. After conducting on-site tests and analysis of infiltration models on the house it was concluded that, as long as the gas appliances are operating correctly, no carbon monoxide buildup is likely. The depressurization caused by running the dryer may pull air in from the flue depending on the outside air temperature and exhaust air temperature. To determine this would require more testing in the home [3]. Transition Plan Next semester the new members will be familiarized with the software available and given tutorials to follow in order to learn the programs they will need to complete their tasks. The returning members of the Architecture/Web Team, Nick Henthorn, Jimmy Johnson, and Prathima Venkatesan, will be working on projects that are currently under way. Floor plans will be added as necessary using 3D Home Architect software. Pictures will also be taken at construction sites and added to the website to aid the construction tutorials. The materials list 17 database, which was nearly completed this semester, will be completed, reviewed, and approved by Habitat for Humanity staff. When this is completed, the Home Construction Guide will be updated with the program. Nick Henthorn, who is most familiar with these projects, will lead these tasks. As previously mentioned, the resale store database will be implemented next semester and a bar coding system will be considered. This will be the primary responsibility of Jimmy Johnson and Prathima Venkatesan. The web page will be updated and linked to the existing Habitat web page by Jimmy Johnson and Nick Henthorn. By working together on these tasks, the skills and knowledge of the returning members can be shared with new members. The major area of concern for the Energy Team's continuity/transition is the knowledge of the Energy-10 software. This knowledge is being passed down to newer members that will be returning, by teaching them how the program works, and giving them direct experience running the program itself. All current members have organized the 'T' drive in the software lab. This organization will help the returning members to teach the new members next year by examples of the projects that we have worked on in the past. The Energy-10 software is more easily learned by example, having someone explain the basic ideas behind the software and by reading the manual. With one of our main energy group members returning, Brian Waller, continuity will not be a problem. New members will be an asset to our energy team because of their new ideas and vitality. Project momentum will not be slowed by the fact that we are in a transition phase. We have finished many of our analyses and we are now starting to implement various projects into the Habitat homes. An example is installation of setback thermostats. Various other projects that were included on our "team conclusions page" can also be reanalyzed and incorporated the same way. Semester Outcomes The overall project schedule for this semester can be found in Appendix VII. The majority of the projects reached completion, while a few will continue into next semester. The main projects that will continue into next semester are the materials list program and the data collection from the setback thermostat study. 18 This semester, Nick Henthorn and Lisa Major served as leaders for the Architecture/ Web team. Lisa's responsibilities were to report team progress to the entire HFH team, and she also led the materials list project with assistance from Nick. Nick is the project leader for the Architecture Team and served to organize tasks. This semester, the materials list program received an initial evaluation by John Sears at Habitat for Humanity and has be updated to remedy any inaccuracies that were noted. Additionally, most of the materials were price estimated by Von Tobel Lumber and Hardware in Lafayette, Indiana. A reevaluation by Habitat staff will be necessary to verify that it produces an accurate representation of the materials required for the home construction process. The volunteer tutorials have been updated and revised to provide a source of home construction guidelines. Feedback concerning the volunteer tutorials has also been collected and evaluated from Purdue University's student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The two new members this semester, Jimmy Johnson and Prathima Venkatesan both worked diligently on the new database project. The database project has seen completion this semester, and will be implemented early next semester. The overall web page has been evaluated and changed according to feedback from Habitat and its volunteers. Jimmy also served as the web-master for the team, and completed the revisions to the web page. The address of the website containing this information is http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hfh/web_project/. Currently the energy team consists of five people. The team leader, Matt Selvey, acts as a representative for the energy team in communicating problems and processes with other members of the habitat epics team. The remaining members of the energy team have been divided up to work on main projects throughout the year. Thermostat Setback Analysis Installation: This was our first main project that has been incorporated into a Habitat for Humanity house. The Energy Team had previous data showing that setback thermostats would be advantageous in Habitat homes, but this semester Brian and Matt reaffirmed this information and did a thorough examination of the energy savings and various types of thermostats that could be installed in the habitat homes. Donnie was then able to install three setback thermostats in habitat homes and setup three houses with Habitat for Humanity to analyze their utility bills, and compare. Having the homeowner sign waivers to 19 release this information to Habitat for Humanity does this. Masaaki also did some research on which thermostat would prove advantageous in the future. CO Testing: This was a safety concern that was brought on by Habitat for Humanity. To investigate this potential problem, Dave rented carbon monoxide testers and recorded the levels of carbon monoxide gas in Habitat homes. After conducting on site tests and analysis of infiltration models on the house, it is concluded that, as long as the gas appliances are operating correctly, no carbon monoxide buildup is likely. The depressurization caused by running the dryer is therefore not strong enough to overcome the pressure difference of the heated exhaust gasses in the flue, so no unacceptable levels of carbon monoxide gas were recorded during our evaluation. Thermal Imaging: Habitat for Humanity also had an insulation concern in some of their homes. With the help of a thermal imaging camera, Donnie helped Habitat for Humanity clarify different areas of homes that may need better attention in the future. This device will also prove to be a big asset to the Energy Team in the future, because this allows us to determine where different areas of heat leak are in the homes. Reflections Architecture/Web Team Members: Lisa Major: I have learned a great deal this semester in EPICS. By having the opportunity to co-lead the Habitat for Humanity Team, I have discovered many of my strengths and weaknesses in the area of leadership. I really enjoyed working with the other members of the team and interacting with the Lafayette Habitat staff members a little more than last semester. It means a lot to me that we can use our education to help members of the community and provide them with more affordable homes. Although there were stressful times of learning to lead better and more efficiently, I've taken a great deal away from this course. Nick Henthorn: My impressions of the EPICS program in general are good. I think that it is a useful and beneficial class for anyone who takes it. I enjoyed working on the HFH team this year and was 20 happy with the people I worked with. I felt that some of the projects we were working on were running out of steam, and so I look forward to starting next semester with new ideas and direction. Prathima Venkatesan: This was my first semester in Epics and I had some initial expectations from the class. I knew that I would get real-life experience that will help me in the future when I start working. I also expected to work in a team of different people with different knowledge and opinions and get to know each of them. Finally, I knew that whatever I was going to do for the team, I would always be learning something new. All my expectations were satisfied. I got to interact with the customer for our project and to understand what the needs were for them. Interacting with my teammates helped me understand their major and what they can do to contribute to the team. Finally, being able to start a new project allowed me to learn new applications and its usefulness in satisfying the needs of the customer. Overall, I would say that being in Epics is a worthwhile experience because it helps you develop many skills. Jimmy Johnson: The Habitat team wasn't my first choice and from the description given I thought that it would also not be beneficial or interesting. I am able to say now that I was wrong with my assumption. After my semester with the Habitat team I believe that my leadership and communication skills have grown. I have had the opportunity this semester to be the leader in a major project for the Habitat team. This experience and the interdisciplinary communication have increased my real world skills. Also, with Habitat for Humanity as our customer, I have had the experience now with communicating across a technical barrier. By having a meeting every week, the project I worked on this semester is different from every other project I have had before. With my other projects there was one deadline, but this semester I had to report my project's progression every week. In a way, this kept me on my toes during the semester. All in all, I would say that I have been surprised by EPICS, and that along with being a good experience, it was fun. 21 Energy Team Members: Brian Waller: I have had a mixed experience this semester in EPICS. At the beginning of the semester, and into the middle, people seemed reluctant to work on progressing the projects. However, towards the end of the semester, people really came around, and I think that our goals were accomplished. I've learned to be more patient this semester, and more experience in teamwork. Matt Selvey: The semester started out fairly slow, while we were trying to get new ideas going and old ones finished up. Once we started working though, I was really impressed by the amount of stuff we got accomplished. We really pulled together as a team towards the end and finished up on some projects that I didn't know if we'd finish. I thought our team worked very well together and it would be interesting to see how much we could accomplish again next semester if we all stayed on. Dave Russel: This was my first semester in EPICS, and I was very excited to take the class. I liked the team I was on, but I did not like the project that I spent most of my time on (CO testing). There was too much sitting in the Engineering library doing research, with minimal results. I am still excited to come back next spring. The team has great potential to really help Habitat and the people on the team are the best. Donnie Austin II: I really enjoyed this semester. I was more involved with the habitat people and the epics program through ESAC. The face-to-face work with Doug and John was rewarding because I was able to see firsthand the accomplishments in semesters past. Also, it was an experience to go into the homes and work with the people. Masaaki Atsuta: Since I expected this course community service course as the name suggesting, it was a little disappointing. Whenever I saw the administration stuff, for instance, limiting students, or the 22 reputations of this course emphasized, my interest of it faded. I was depressed when I was almost let go because of comments I wrote to ask for help about this course. Also, when I asked Habitat people to come up with a new job for me, I felt they didn't expect me (or us) very much. I am also sure that Doug don't want me to think that I work for them but he want me to think they let me work for them and this is very depressing. Thus, my enthusiasm of this course now is not high as in the beginning of this semester. However, some of the team members are very nice to me and I feel that I should've worked harder and contributed to team more for these people. Conclusion The EPICS Habitat for Humanity Architectural / Web team is making progress to better provide Habitat for Humanity with a product that is useful to their organization. The materials lists will reduce the time it takes to actually start building the home. The database will serve to organize and simplify the procedures associated with the resale store. The web page will provide an easily accessible resource for all information required by Habitat throughout the home construction process. Work between Habitat and the architectural / web team has resulted in a complete set of standardized floor plans with material lists, a set of volunteer tutorials to describe and illustrate each step in the home building process, a set of home efficiency options for home construction, and a complete source of all information produced by the Habitat for Humanity EPICS team. With the completion of this semester, the home building process should become more efficient and easier for all members involved. The Energy Team analyzed setback thermostats through the use of Energy-10. After simulating them using Energy-10, they were installed into three of the existing Habitat for Humanity houses. Data will be collected starting this summer, and will be completed next semester. To make the homeowners more comfortable with the setback thermostats, a tutorial was completed and will be delivered to Habitat for Humanity to give to each homeowner. The Energy Team also tested for carbon monoxide levels in some of the Habitat for Humanity houses. After conducting onsite tests and analysis of infiltration models on the house, it is concluded that, as long as the gas appliances are operating correctly, no carbon monoxide buildup is likely. Thermal imaging in the Habitat for Humanity houses was also completed, and will be a useful 23 tool in the future. Thermal imaging will allow people to see places in their home where heat is escaping. These thermal losses are detrimental to the efficiency of the Habitat for Humanity homes, and thermal imaging will help to recognize this loss of efficiency. 24 References: [1] http://home.att.net/~cobusters1/Table.htm [2] ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook. 1997 IP edition. Ch 25 [3] ASHRAE Fundamentals Handbook. 1997 IP edition. Eq. 39, Pg 25.15; Eq. 28 p25.8 [4] DeWitt, David P. and Frank P. Incropera. Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer. John Wiley & Sons: New York. 1996 (Fourth Edition). [5] Designing Low-Energy Buildings: Passive Solar Strategies & Energy-10 Software 1.2. Passive Solar Industries Council: Washington, DC. 1996. 25
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Saudi Arabia's retail market is expected to grow by 21 percent over the next four years, from $76 billion in 2008 to $97 billion by 2013, according to a Retail Report on the kingdom by Business Monitor International (BMI).
The nation's economic growth, its young population and the rise in disposable income will drive Saudi's retail growth, the report said.
"With the population increasing from 24.4 million in 2008 to an estimated 26.5 million by 2013, consumer spending per capita is predicted to rise by more than 24 percent by the end of the forecast period, reaching $5,246," BMI said.
"Increasing urbanization is also driving retail sales. In 2005, nearly 89 percent of the population was classified by the UN as urban, and this is forecast to increase to more than 90 percent by 2010," the report said, adding: "The UN also described more than 57 percent of the population as economically active in 2005, with this proportion forecast to exceed 66 percent by 2015."
The report noted, however, that Saudi Arabia's expected retail growth is not the highest in the GCC; BMI predicts the UAE's sector will grow by 26 percent over the same period, to reach $142.59 billion by 2013.
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