Chapter 5
i. Energy Conservation
The Community Activity Center should be designed to
minimize energy consumption. It should take advantage
of the applicable considerations of siting, building orienta-
tion, landscaping, layout, enclosure, insulation, glazing,
passive solar design, wind protection and wall shading,
in order to reduce energy consumption and expenditure.
In addition, the CAC is a consolidated facility with com-
ponent elements that may have different operating
schedules, leaving some parts of the building open while
others are closed. The mechanical and electrical sys-
tems should be designed to permit energy-efficient oper-
ation of the whole building or of its parts. This may
require zoning of the building and its heating and cooling
systems. More than one mechanical system may pro-
vide a more flexible and efficient design. The mechani-
cal system alternatives should be compared through life-
cycle costing, as well as other building design and sys-
tem options, for an energy-efficient choice.
The consolidated nature of the CAC requires special
consideration of the design of the mechanical and electri-
cal systems. These include the special power demands
of ceramic kilns, theatre lighting, electronic audio-visual
equipment, the ventilation, exhaust and waste disposal
requirements of woodworking, metalworking, painting and
other crafts processes, among others. These individual
needs and the most flexible and energy-efficient means
of meeting them with single or composite systems should
be analyzed in the early stages of mechanical and elec-
trical system design.
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