BUILDING AS P OWER P LANT—BAPP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13052/dgaej2156-3306.1923Abstract
The Building as Power Plant (BAPP) initiative seeks to integrate
advanced energy-effective building technologies (ascending strategies)
with innovative distributed energy generation systems (cascading strat-
egies), such that most or all of the building’s energy needs for heating,
cooling, ventilating, and lighting are met on-site, under the premise of
fulfilling all requirements concerning user comfort and control (visual,
thermal, acoustic, spatial, and air quality). This will be pursued by inte-
grating a “passive approach” with the use of renewable energies. In
addition, the project will achieve unprecedented levels of organizational
flexibility and technological adaptability. The project has progressed
though preliminary architectural design and engineering and 5 work-
shops (Ascending Energy Strategies, Floor-by-Floor Infrastructures, Inte-
rior Systems, HVAC Systems, and Cascading Energy Strategies). BAPP is
designed as a 6-story building, located in Pittsburgh (a cold climate with
a moderate solar potential), with a total area of about 6000 m 2 which
houses classrooms, studios, laboratories, and administrative offices. At
present, the combined cooling, heating, and power generation option
that is being considered for the demonstration building is a Siemens
Westinghouse 250-kW solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC). In this article, we will
report a number of integrated solution scenarios and their energy perfor-
mance.
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