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Calendar of Events Residential Service Core Optimizes Space and Energy May 10-13 American Institute of Residential mechanical systems are r; Architects National seldom designed. Instead, they are installed Convention �, Minneapolis,MN to accommodate a space plan that fails to � � Contact: Stephanie Vierra consider pipes, ducts and other equipment. AIA Research The Service Core demonstration is a joint Phone:(202)879-7752 effort of Minnegasco and the Johnson Fax: (202)626-7425 Controls Institute on Environmental Quality t May 13-17 in Architecture at the University of 25th IEEE Photo Voltaic Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The purpose of the Specialists Conference Service Core demonstration is to invoke a J� Hyatt Regency Crystal City paradigm shift in residential architecture: Contact:Washington,WendyDC Larson-NREL rather than run mechanicals to accommodate Phone: (303)384-6497 a floor plan, first optimize the mechanicals to improve performance and reduce May 22 installation/operating costs, then consider Energy Efficient their feasibility plan. The goal is improved inancig and Home RS performance and reduced costs. Rating Systems: An Introduction Co-sponsored by Energy Alley&Saint The Service Core has the potential to Paul Neighborhood Energy Consortium reduce energy costs in five ways: it reduces St.Paul Hotel. sr. Paul,MN the installation cost of energy systems; it ,:' Contact:Julie Ball at MEI Phone:(612)334-3388 reduces distribution losses in plumbing and : i air-handling systems; it reduces the cost of June 8-12 heating/cooling spaces by minimizing International District penetrations through the thermal envelope; 000.11. Energy Association's 87th all energy-using plant is accessible for Annual Conference & Trade Showmaintenance, a critical feature to assure life-cycle savings on high-efficiency equipment; Sheraton Washington since energy-using systems are proximate, there are greater opportunities for recovering Hotel,Washington, DC waste energy from ventilation air, grey water or refrigeration processes. Nothing is Contact: IDEA buried in floor or wall assemblies, so components remain accessible for inspection, Phone: (202)429-5111 maintenance, and repair. June 19-20 • The proximityand compactness of Service Core systems arepossible because of new Strategic Gas Forum p Y Cobo Exhibition Center gas combustion technology. Heating equipment need not be placed near a chimney in De the basement, with rocess heated air or water Contact:troit,MI Registrar,Assoc. of out uts p p ( ) pumped to distant locations. Energy Engineers Smaller, more efficient heating equipment may be placed in a small mechanical room. Phone:(770)925-9633 The basement may be eliminated or used for living space - an effective strategy for affordable housing. June 21-23 The Midwest Renewable Prototyping and demonstration of the Service Core is underwritten in part by Energy Fair Minnegasco with financial and technical support from Lennox Industries, VANMAR Portagemherst,CoWuntIy Fairgrounds A Ventilation, Weyerhaeuser Company and the Kohler Company. The project is managed Organized by MREA by Stan Wrzeski, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. (Midwest Renewable EnergyAss.'E. Phone:(715)824-5166 Fax: (715)824-5399 For further information, please contact Stan Wrzeski. In Wisconsin: (P) 414-229- 6878 E-Mail: wrz@csd.uwm.edu. In Minneapolis: (P) 612-321-5095. June 23-27 Wind Power 1996 Denver,CO Organized by the AWEA(American Wind Energy Association) The Rocky Mountain Institute Offers Publications for Contact:Linda Redmond, Sustainable Living _ AWEA Meetings Coordinator Phone:(202)383-2500 The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) wants to make energy efficiency and renewable Fax:(202)383-2505 information available to as many people as possible. RMI's publication catalog November 14-17 includes a wide range of energy material—resource-efficient buildings, transportation, Energy Efficient Building general energy information, electricity & electric utilities, water & agriculture, Association (EEBA) 1996 sustainable economic development and national energy security issues. Energy Excellence in Building Alley has ordered copies of RMI's"Community Energy Workbook"for the Sustainable Conference City committee to serve as a project planning guide once the city is up and running. Hyatt Regency M Minneapolis, N To receive a publications catalog call (970) 927-3420 or fax (970) 927-3851. Contact: Elizabeth You can also request a catalog through the RMI homepage, Phone:(612)851-9940 http://solstice.crest.org/rmi or through e-mail, orders@rmi.org.