Please allow me to apologize for and offer corrections to the most recent email. The correct dates for the upcoming webinar series are:
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December 3: BY-RIGHT/BY-DESIGN: Los Angeles Housing Designed & Developed
Earn 1 HSW CEH ' 12-1pm ET ' 9-10am PT '
Register Now at No Cost January 7: Designing Residential Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort
Earn 1 HSW/SD CEH ' 12-1pm ET ' 9-10am PT '
Register Now at No Cost
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BY-RIGHT/BY-DESIGN: Los Angeles Housing Designed & Developed
Earn 1 HSW CEH ' December 3 ' 12:00-1:00pm ET ' 9:00-10:00am PT ' Learn More
In By-Right/By-Design, Liz Falletta of USC presents a qualitative analysis of significant Los Angeles multi-family housing design projects and their associated development types. A side-by-side graphic comparison of these works-common, basic types developed in large numbers over time by builders and landlord interests, versus an example of high design by a noted architect-tells a visual story of the complicated interactions between design, development and planning, highlighting how negotiations among these disciplines have shaped residential life in Los Angeles.
Three comparisons will be presented: the Mackey Apartments built in 1939 by Rudolph Schindler with a Four Flat, primarily developed during the teens and twenties, the National Apartments built in 1954 by Ray Kappe with a Dingbat, primarily developed during the fifties and sixties, and the Harold Way Apartments built in 2003 by Koning Eizenberg with a Podium Apartment, which began development in the eighties and is ongoing.
The study identifies a "typology of trade-offs" that categorizes the consequences of disciplinary approaches to important housing design decisions, including density, unit mix, unit aggregation, access, parking and relationships between indoor and outdoor space.
Designing Residential Ventilation for Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort
Earn 1 HSW/SD CEH ' January 7 ' 12:00-1:00pm ET ' 9:00-10:00am PT ' Learn More
Well-designed housing uses ventilation to maintain a healthy indoor environment and to provide thermal comfort with a low carbon footprint. However, the methods for achieving these goals-be they natural/passive or mechanical/active-impose significantly different design requirements on the form, fenestrations, and internal zoning of the residence.
With that in mind, presenters, Thomas A. Gentry, AIA, LEED AP, CDT and Robert W. Cox, Ph.D. define the basic methods for providing effective ventilation and explore their implications in the overall design process. They also describe design aids ranging from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to rules-of-thumb, and briefly review ANSI/ASHRAE 62.2-2010 - Ventilation and Acceptable Indoor Air Quality in Low-Rise Residential Buildings. Lastly, they describe the work being done at the University of North Carolina Charlotte to couple whole-house fan-forced ventilation with real time power monitoring to reduce air conditioning loads. They will describe how this method could be well suited for existing and new housing throughout much of the United States.
This presentation draws from ongoing research at the University of North Carolina Charlotte that is funded in part by a U.S. Department of Energy Weatherization Innovation Pilot Program (WIPP) grant.