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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

Monday, February 4, 2008 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Kaye Brubaker, Julie Gabrielli, Amy Gardner

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Photo credits: EERE and University of Maryland.

"LEAFHouse - A Smart, Adaptable, Resource-efficient Home Powered by Renewable Energy"

ABSTRACT -- With the ever increasing costs of electricity and fossil fuels, energy efficient home technology is becoming a necessity. The Solar Decathlon is a competition held by the U.S. Department of Energy in which 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house. The Solar Decathlon is also an event to which the public is invited to observe the powerful combination of solar energy, energy efficiency, and the best in home design. The Solar Decathletes - tomorrow's engineers, architects, researchers, and homeowners - share a new vision for living under the sun. These solar homes are powerful, comfortable, and stylish. They are relaxed and elegant, wasting neither space nor energy. In 2007, the University of Maryland team took second place with their entry, "LEAFHouse" This talk will provide an overview of the competition and discuss the design, technologies, and challenges of this award-winning home.

SPEAKERS -- Kaye Brubaker, Julie Gabrielli and Amy Gardner were faculty advisors to the interdisciplinary Solar Decathlon 2007 Team at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). Amy Gardner, AIA, LEED, is Associate Professor of Architecture at UMCP and Principal at Gardner Mohr Architects, LLC. Julie Gabrielli, AIA, LEED, is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at UMCP and owner of Gabrielli Design Studios, LLC. Both Gardner and Gabrielli earned their architecture degrees at the University of Virginia; they share a longstanding commitment to sustainable design and academic/professional integration. Kaye Brubaker, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UMCP. Brubaker earned her doctorate in Hydrology at M.I.T.; her research expertise is in water-energy links in the hydrologic cycle (snowmelt and evaporation). She also served as faculty advisor to Maryland’s 2005 Solar Decathlon Team.


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