Alfred State Zero Energy Home

Date/Time
10/21/2012
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Tour Host
Alfred State
Alfred State College
Phone: 607 587 3101
www.alfredstate.edu/sustainability/green-home

Registration Location
Alfred State College
2530 River Rd
Willsville, NY 14895
United States

Tour Fee
None

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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.