Jocelyn Connolly Seth Gregor Chris Gigliotti Green Dorm Room- Team 12 Jocelyn Connolly Seth Gregor Chris Gigliotti Weighted Hierarchal Customer Needs List Abstract The objective of our project is to redesign Penn State University dorms to be greener by implementing more sustainable resources and technology. Our report gives a detailed explanation of customer needs assessment, which we found that the most important factors to our consumers were being comfortable and low cost. From this we derived our revised problem statement, implementing sustainable changes without affecting any of our other customer needs. To help us generate ideas we conducted an external search and from there generated more concepts. We incorporated our concepts into our final design where we then proceeded to select the materials. Based on our research we concluded that geothermal heating and cooling is the best way to maintain a comfortable temperature while remaining at low cost. Also, because of its abundance in the United States, we chose natural gas for energy generation. We decided to keep the layout of the current bathrooms; however, we chose to implement low flow plumbing and faucet sensors. Other changes we made were adding motion sensor lighting for energy conservation, moveable furniture, more storage, and bigger windows for natural lighting. Comfortable (0.269) Air conditioning/heat Good lighting Clean Bigger beds Built-in carpet Privacy Nicer common area Better chair F.1 Cushion F.2 Rolling 1.9 Bigger refrigerator Aesthetics (0.043) Modern Appealing Tinted windows Big windows Productivity (0.184) Wi-Fi Workspace F.1 Desk F. 2 Study areas in dorms 3.3 Sound proof walls 4. Layout (0.139) 4.1 Movable furniture 4.2 More storage F.1 Bigger closet F. 2 More drawer space 5. Low Cost (0.211) 6. Durable (0.105) 7. Environmentally Friendly (.05) AHP Pairwise Comparison Chart   Comfortable Aesthetics Productivity Layout Low Cost Durable Environmentally Friendly Sum 1 5 3 2 4 21 .27 .2 .33 3.39 .04 14.3 .18 .5 10.8 .14 16.5 .21 .25 8.16 .10 Environment 3.78 .05 78 Morphological Chart Function Materials Power generation Water use Heating/cooling Layout Appliances Lighting 1 Recyclable Solar Low Flow Geothermal Moveable Furniture Energy Star Motion Sensor flourescent 2 Synthetic Wind High Volume Heat pump Non-moveable Gas-powered Incandescent 3 Normal Flooring Natural Gas Manual HVAC Suites Normal LED 4 Oil Wood pellet burner Major Changes Motion sensors Layout Plumbing Geothermal Materials 6. Appliances Water Eutrophication Carbon Footprint Air Acidification Total Energy Consumed