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Zero Energy Demonstration Home

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School of Applied Technology

NAHB logoThis house is now complete and certified as a Gold NAHB Green Home.

Alfred State has constructed a Zero Energy Demonstration Home on the Wellsville campus. This showcase home was constructed completely by Alfred State students in 2009 to 2011 and is funded primarily by the Federal Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and originally named the Green Home. The home was built to National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) green building standards and is certified Gold. The project has allowed the college to integrate green construction and renewable energy education into existing applied technology programs at the college. This project will continue to educate the future construction workforce in green building techniques including green construction, energy efficiency, and renewable energy systems including geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic and small wind. The home also has a Tempcast fireplace that is a high efficiency wood burning system. All of these systems have been included and the home is now a Zero Energy Demonstration Home. The home has a high-end monitoring and automation system funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) that includes temperature sensors to the full depth of the geothermal wells, insolation monitoring adjacent to solar thermal and photovoltaic systems and other monitoring and automation systems. The home is being used as an open laboratory for the public and Alfred State students. Additional basic monitoring for a home owner is also being added to the home.

Lot Design, Preparation, and Development

  • Site Selection
  • Site Design
  • Site Development

Resource Efficiency

  • Reduce Quantity of Materials & Waste
  • Enhance Durability & Reduce Maintenance
  • Reuse Materials
  • Use Recycled Content
  • Recycle Waste Materials During Construction
  • Use Renewable Materials
  • Use Resource-Efficient Materials

Energy Efficiency

  • Implement an Integrated & Comprehensive Approach to Energy-Efficient Design of Building Site, Building Envelope, and Mechanical Space Conditioning Systems
  • Performance Path
  • Prescriptive Path

Renewable Energy (Heating, Cooling)

  • Geothermal
  • Photovoltaic (solar electric)
  • Solar Thermal

Water Efficiency

  • Indoor/Outdoor Water Use

Indoor Environmental Quality

  • Minimize Potential Sources of Pollutants
  • Manage Potential Pollutants Generated in the Home
  • Moisture Management (Vapor, Rainwater, Plumbing, HVAC)

Operation, Maintenance, and Homeowner Education

  • Provide Required Home Manual to Owners/Occupants on the Use & Care of the Home
  • Optional Information to Include in the Home Manual
  • Provide Education to Owners/Occupants in the Use and Care of Their Dwelling(s)
  • Solid Waste

Global Impact

  • Products

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Appalachian Regional Commission Federal Co-chair Visits ASC

ARC, NYSDOS, and STW representatives visit on July 28, 2010Alfred State hosted Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), the New York Department of State (NYSDOS), and Southern Tier West Regional Development and Planning Board (STW) representatives in 2010, at the School of Applied Technology campus in Wellsville. The visitors met with ASC officials to review their partnerships with Alfred State.

Visitors included Earl F. Gohl who was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 10, 2010 as federal co-chair of the ARC. He is the 11th federal co-chair to be appointed since the Commission was established by an act of Congress in 1965. George Korchowsky, Land Use Training Specialist (LUTS II) with the Department of State’s Division of Local Government working for the New York State Appalachian Regional Commission, accompanied the federal co-chair on the Alfred State visit. read more

Completed green home on the Wellsville campus