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Institute For Health in the Built Environment: Recent submissions

  • High Performance Insulations and Future Housing Systems 
    Kellett, Ronald; Aires, Kevin; Braun, Lee; Larocque, Paul (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1994-06)
    This paper excerpts work in progress within a United States Department of Energy sponsored research program. In this work, design studies establish scenarios of energy efficient housing systems for the year 2030 based on ...
  • Comparison of Residential Energy Codes 
    Pierce, Sam; Brown, G. Z. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1992-01)
    The objective of this investigation is to gain an understanding of the code requirements in order to gauge the task of developing an energy code compliance tool for use by industrialized housing producers. Although this ...
  • Barriers to Increasing the Market Share of Wood-Framed Closed Panels 
    Brown, G. Z.; Larocque, Paul; Peffer, Therese (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1996-05)
    The University of Oregon completed diagnostic testing of six units of housing which used open and closed panels. Open panels are built with wood studs and shipped to the site with sheathing, and sometimes windows and ...
  • Demonstration House Project for: St. Vincent De Paul Society 
    Brown, G. Z.; University of Oregon. Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1992)
  • Multiyear Research Plan Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing 
    Brown, G. Z.; Berg, Rudy; Corner, Don; Finrow, Jerry; Kellett, Ronald; Kirsch, Patti; McDonald, Margot; McGinn, Barry; Sekiguchi, Tomoko; Fairey, Philip; Chandra, Subrato; Swart, William; Roland, Jim; Maxwell, Larry (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1989-06)
    The research program, under the guidance of a steering committee composed of industry and government representatives, focuses on three interdependent concerns -- energy conservation, industrial process, and housing design. ...
  • City Form: The Creation of Comfortable Urban Microclimates 
    Brown, G. Z.; Novitski, B. J.; Kleczynski, H. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1981)
    This paper describes a method for analyzing the climate of exterior spaces in terms of human thermal comfort. Hypothetical city configurations are compared in two U.S. climate zones.
  • Performance Specifications for the Design and Manufacture of Energy Efficient Housing in the 21st Century 
    Brown, G. Z.; Kellett, Ronald; DeKay, Mark; Muller, Brook; Peting, Donald (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1992)
    This paper reports on work in progress in 'Design for Energy Efficiency', one of fifteen task areas of the U.S. Department of Energy sponsored Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing research program. In this task, ...
  • The Microclimates Around Free-Standing Buildings 
    Brown, G. Z.; Novitski, B. J. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 2011)
    This paper describes the methodology and results of a project to study the behavior of the sun and wind in creating more or less favorable microclimates around two suburban building types in two U.S. locations.
  • Energy Scheming 1.0 
    Brown, G. Z.; Sekiguchi, Tomoko (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1989)
    This paper describes software for the Apple Macintosh microcomputer that aids architecture students and professionals in incorporating energy considerations in the earliest phase of the design process. The user interface ...
  • Global Warming, Computerized Design Tools and Industrialized Housing 
    Brown, G. Z. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1990-11)
    This paper reviews the author's and his associates' current research in the areas of global warming, computerized design tools and industrialized housing. The global warming study for buildings in the United States ...
  • Architectural Response to Climatic Patterns 
    Brown, G. Z.; Novitski, B. J. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1997)
    We have analysed several climates in terms of some basic recurring weather patterns, and then classified these patterns in terms of direct architectural response. This analysis allows the designer to organize and ...
  • Insideout: Making Environmental Control Systems a Part of Design 
    Brown, G. Z. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1980)
    The teaching of mechanical and electrical systems in isolation (i e, distinct from design studios), reinforces the notion that technical concerns are narrow, equipment oriented and independent. Broader environmental questions ...
  • Conceptual Design Subdomain Model 
    Brown, G. Z.; McDonald, Margot (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1990-12)
    The Advanced Energy Design and Operation Technologies (AEDOT) Research Project was created to develop a scientific and technical basis for improved energy-related decision making early in the design process and in ways ...
  • Design and Evaluation of Energy Efficient Modular Classroom Structures 
    Bernhard, Sarah; Brown, G. Z.; Briscoe, John; Kline, Jeff; Kumar, Pawan; Wang, Zhunqin; Rasmussen, Donald; Rasmussen, Kenneth; Stanard, James (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1996)
    The objective of our investigations was to develop innovations that would enable modular builders to improve the energy performance of their classrooms without increasing their first cost. The Modem Building Systems' classroom ...
  • An Approach to Teaching Calculation Procedures for Passive Design 
    Brown, G. Z.; Ubbelohde, M. Susan; Reynolds, John S. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1981)
    This paper describes the development, testing and revision of a workbook, Passive Procedures for Daylighting, Passive Solar Heating and Cooling", which emphasize the integration of a set of calculation procedures with ...
  • Computer Use in Industrialized Housing Sales, Design and Manufacturing Processes 
    Brown, G. Z.; McDonald, Margot; Meacham, Matt (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1991)
    This paper summarizes a study on the extent of computer use by industrialized housing producers in the U.S., Japan, Sweden and Norway. The study was directed at understanding industrialized housing production and energy ...
  • An Integrated Environment for Intelligent Energy Design 
    Brambley, Michael R.; Quadrel, Richard W.; Stratton, Rex C.; Brown, G. Z.; Meacham, Matt; Miller, Peter; Pohl, Jens G.; La Porta, John; Snyder, James; Selkowitz, Steven E.; Papamichael, Konstantinos; Bailey, Mark L. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1992)
    The design of energy-efficient buildings can be aided by intelligent computer tools that can evaluate design solutions and make recommendations for improving the buildings' energy performance. Such tools can be very ...
  • Energy, Scheming: . Macintosh Software for Preliminary Design 
    Brown, G. Z.; Sekiguchi, Tomoko (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1991)
    This paper describes software for the Apple Macintosh microcomputer that aids architecture students and professionals in incorporating energy considerations in the earliest phases of the design process. The user interface ...
  • Teaching Energy in Design: A Matter of Attitude, Circumstance and Style 
    Brown, G. Z. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1983)
  • Climate Responsive Earth-Sheltered Buildings 
    Brown, G. Z.; Novitski, B. J. (Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1981-03)
    An understanding of the impact of climate on the built environment can lead to the' design of more fuel-efficient buildings. The authors present a methodology for analyzing climate conditions in terms of the architectural ...

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