1. Sustainable Community EDSGN 100, Section 011 TEAM 5 Kenny Fuhrman, Austin Zelko, Zach Santos, & Steven Griffel Submitted to Developers of Community

2. Table of Contents Overview Overall Layout Housing Water Management Energy Cost Analysis Questions

3. Design Task Problem Statement - Build a sustainable community for college students Customer Needs - An affordable, enjoyable, and accessible living area Design Specifications - Houses at least 300 people and is self sustaining Fig. 1. PSU students

4. Overall Layout Fig. 2. community layout

5. Housing Layout Fig. 3 Apartment layout

6. Housing Materials Steel Framing Corrugated Steel Siding Straw Bale Walls Copper Roofing Linoleum Flooring Low VOC Paint Fig. 4. Straw Walls Fig. 5. Copper Roofing

7. Furnace 50,000 BTU Installed in basement Durable ceramic-coated combustion chamber Fig. 6. Furnace

8. Water Management Septic Tank Septic Ta Mono Solar Water Filtration Sand Filtration System Fig. 7. Septic Tank Fig. 8. Water Filtration Fig. 9. Sand Filtration

9. Energy Total Anaerobic Digester produces 94,752 kWh Total Energy Consumption: 224,000 kWh/month 500kW Nedwind Turbine produces 162,500 kWh/month Fig. 10. Anaerobic Digester Fig. 11. Wind Turbine

10. Cost Analysis Cost of Apartment o $2.2 million Apartment Rent Price o $600 per month per person Energy systems costs o Included in monthly rent Fig. 12. Money

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12. Questions?