CME 305 - Sustainable Energy Systems for Buildings
3 Credits (3 Lecture Hours)
Lecture – Meets in 148 Baker Lab - Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays 9:30-10:25 AM
Instructor – Paul Crovella
219 Baker Laboratory
Phone X-6839 (470-6839)
E-mail plcrovella@esf.edu
Webpage – http://www.esf.edu/scme/crovella/default.htm
Office hours – M,W,F 10:30-11:30, T,R 11:00 – 12:00
Graduate Assistant – Neil Kohan
Office hours –TBA
Required TextResidential Energy : cost savings and comfort for existing buildings/Krigger and
Dorsi. 6th edition. Saturn Resource Management, 2012.
Reference Texts –
Understanding Renewable Energy Systems/Quaschning. Earthscan, 2005.
Sustainable Energy Systems Engineering/Gevorkian. McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Description - This course is designed to explore construction management-related issues
in creating a more sustainable energy use in our building stock. Integrating sustainable
energy sources in construction as well as issues related to using energy more efficiently
will be covered.
Relation to Learning Objectives: This course directly supports the following
departmental learning objectives:
2. An ability to communicate in a professional manner through the
development of writing skills, public speaking skills, and mastery of a variety of
media and software applications
4. An ability to provide professional construction services that meet client
needs while upholding the principles of sustainability as applied to the client’s
project
This course also meets the ACCE learning objectives in the area of General
Education – Oral and Written Communication
Student outcomes
1. The student will be able to show how building energy use is quantified, how to
perform a building energy audit, and explain the various methods of rating energy
efficiency in buildings.
2. The student will demonstrate the ability to distinguish between different site-based
sustainable energy sources for building operation, and evaluate them based on technical,
economic, and environmental considerations.
3. The student will understand the methods used for increasing the energy efficiency of
buildings, and specifically how to ensure that said measures are implemented correctly
during construction.
4. The student will appreciate the role played by the energy modeling in new
construction, and the impacts of construction management on the assumptions used in the
models.
Attendance - Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes and laboratories. If
special circumstances such as illness, travel difficulties, family emergencies or active
participation in college-sponsored events make absence unavoidable you must see me to
make up the work. For these cases, no student will be allowed to complete graded work
after that work has been returned to others in the class. In the case of absence due to
religious observance, students will be provided an opportunity to make up any
examination, study, or work requirements that may be missed provided you notify me
by e-mail before the end of the second week of classes. Further information about the
SU policy that this is based on can be found at
http://supolicies.syr.edu/emp_ben/religious_observance.htm While in class, please keep
cell phones turned off, this includes during tests (no cell phone calculators).
To maintain the proper classroom environment, computers may not be used during
lecture without permission of the instructor. When in use they it should be strictly for
class-related activity.
Academic Accommodations - Students wishing to utilize academic accommodations
due to a diagnosed disability of any kind must present an Academic Accommodations
Authorization Letter generated by Syracuse University’s Office of Disability Services. If
you currently have an Authorization Letter, please present this to me as soon as possible
so that I may assist with the establishment of your accommodations. Students who do not
have a current Academic Accommodations Authorization Letter from Syracuse
University’s Office of Disability Services cannot receive accommodations. If you do not
currently have an Authorization Letter and feel you are eligible for accommodations,
please contact Heather Rice in the Office of Counseling and Disabilities Services, 110
Bray Hall, (315) 470-6660 or counseling@esf.edu as soon as possible.
Academic Honesty – Honesty and integrity are the foundation of professional behavior
and are expected of each student. Any assignment (including those in electronic media)
submitted by a student must be of the student's original authorship. Representation of
another's work as the student’s own shall constitute plagiarism. Cheating, in any form, is
an unacceptable behavior within all college courses, and the Code of Student Conduct (as
outlined in the ESF student handbook
http://www.esf.edu/students/handbook/0910StHandbk.pdf ) will be strictly adhered to.
Grading – The course grading will be a combination of grades earned on technical
reports, quizzes, an individual project, a class presentation, and a final exam.
The final grade will be based on these percentages
Technical Reports
35%
Quizzes
25%
Individual project
15%
Class presentation
5%
Class participation
10%
Final Exam
10%
Graded work will be returned on a timely basis. This typically means:
Short homework assignments:
1 week to 10 days
Quizzes
Up to 10 days
Laboratory assignments
Up to 2 weeks
Major Exams
Up to 2 weeks
Major projects or papers
Up to 2-3 weeks
Homework – The technical reports will be prepared according to separate guidelines that
will be provided. At a minimum all written work must be word-processed and spell
checked. Any calculations may be hand-written neatly with the answer labeled with units
and boxed. Any report not turned in on-time needs to be discussed with me to determine
if credit will be given. No late work will be accepted after the assignment has been graded
and returned to the rest of the class.
Week
1
Topic
Introduction, types of energy,
measuring energy
2
3
Solar energy characteristics
Photovoltaics
4
Solar domestic hot water
5
Wind
6
7
Biofuels, geothermal, fuel cell,
CHP
Heat loss- conduction
8
Heat loss – infiltration
9
Insulation
10
Windows and Doors
11
Lighting
Reading
Residential
Energy 13-36
Residential
Energy chap 2
Residential
Energy chap 3
Residential
Energy chap 4
Residential
Energy chap 5
Residential
Report topic
1. Personal
Introduction
2. Building Energy
Use – Personal
Experience
Solar horizon evaluation
Analysis of Sunviewer
data for Walters Hall
Analysis of flat plate
collector data from Near
Westside
NY Smallwind Resource
Explorer exercise
Potential Free Watt
exercise
Building Shell Upgrades
exercise
Infiltration exercise
Potential insulation tester
exercise
Potential Syron window
exercise
Potential HDR exercise
12
Energy Modeling
13
14
Student presentations
Graduate student presentations
Energy chap 7
Rescheck and
Comcheck
documentation
Potential BEopt modeling
Lab Report Format
For your each lab report, you will write a summary of the information found
during your assignment work. In particular you will describe your findings relative to the
topic being explored.
The report will follow a format that is commonly used in science/engineering
courses. This format will allow a user with a technical background, but with no
familiarity with the project to understand your purpose, approach, and findings. A report
of this type would be typical for presenting a detailed investigation of a technical
construction issue to a designer or construction manager.
The report needs to follow this format:
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8.
Cover page – a sheet with the title of the report, the author’s name, the date of
the report and for whom the report was prepared. It can contain a graphic, and
other information, but it must contain the data above. (10)
Table of Contents – This should allow a user to quickly access the part of the
report that they are interested in. The table of contents should list each of the
sections below, and include a page number for the section. If appendices are
included, they should be identified (e.g. Appendix A – Soil boring log,
Appendix B- Soil profiles, Appendix C – Pictures of soil samples) (10)
Introduction – This should describe the purpose of the report. Why is this work
being performed? What is the goal of performing this work? What will be
learned by performing this work? (15)
Method – How did you go about performing the work? What process, method,
or technique was used? Describe the way that you determined the values that
are reported in the results section. You should explain what theory is relevant
for the work that you are doing. Typically you would explain the formulas that
you use later in the report. Your explanation should allow someone else to
perform the work and reproduce the results. (20)
Data – Include the relevant data here, with labels and headings. This should
help the reader understand the work you did. (10)
Summary of results – You should report what results (values, etc.) you
determined from your data. This should be presented in a table format, charts,
graphs, etc. to make it easy to analyze. You should also include any relevant
reference values, etc. Be sure to identify what units the values are measured in.
(20)
Conclusions – What did the results tell you about what you wanted to know?
How did the values compare to the reference values? What did you learn by
performing these tests? Try to avoid using the first person, and keep an
impersonal tone. (15)
Appendix (if relevant) – Information that does not fit into the main body of the
report, but is referenced by the report, or is of interest to the reader. Only
include information in the body of the report that you expect the reader to read.
Large sets of data, etc. will be included in the appendix
The report should be word processed and spell checked. In the interest of conserving
paper, I appreciate printing on both sides of the page.