In December 1999, the Hay Fund provided $100,000 to the Renewable Energy Institute at Cal Poly to extend research activities at Cal Poly to other universities. The EHHF/SBSE Program Fund, while administered through Cal Poly, is designed to support faculty members of the organization, the Society of Building Science Educator (SBSE) to further research interests across climatic regions in the U.S. in passive solar and water in architecture.

GRAPHICAL CLIMATE RESOURCES IN ARCHITECTURE

The first grant of the EHHF/SBSE Program of approximately $20,000 was awarded to Prof. Mark Dekay, then of Washington University at Saint Louis later moving to University of Tennessee. Prof. Dekay's proposal for "Climatic Design Resources: On-line Information for Architectural Design Strategies" will provide graphically presented web-based climate data for 25 U.S. cities that can be used in conjunction with existing energy simulation software for building thermal analysis and climate-adapted design principles. Work on this project will be completed in 2001.

ROOF PONDS FOR ENERGY SCHEMING

In August 2000, the Hay Fund committed approximately $25,000 to the University of Oregon, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, to incorporate roof ponds and water as thermal storage for passive design into their commercial energy simulation software, Energy Scheming. This software tied into the Hay Fund project from Washington University on climate resources. The estimated completion date for this project is 2001.

VISUALIZING THE INVISIBLE:
Understanding the Radiant Phenomena

A team of Arizona State University professors are developing a Web-based tool architects can use to design more-energy-efficient buildings. The software will teach architects how heated and cooled interior surfaces can save energy and provide better comfort than conventional forced-air, energy-intensive mechanical systems through well documented case study buildings including the original Skytherm House in Atascadero, California, and a residence outside Phoenix, Arizona. Professors Harvey Bryan and David Scheatlze of Arizona State's Architecture Department are the third recipients of an award from the Society of Building Science Educators/Evelyn and Harold Hay Fund. Project completion will be in 2002. The software will incorporate thermal infrared images -- in color and black and white -- like those pictured below.

HUMAN COMFORT IN PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS
The Effect of Mean Radiant Temperature on Human Comfort in Passive Solar Buildings

A team of faculty from the Center for Energy Research/Education/Service at Ball State University will determine the thermal characteristics of direct and indirect passive heating strategies, through an experimental side-by-side comparison between a control test room and five passive solar test rooms (Direct Gain, Roof-Pond, Water-Wall, Trombe-Wall, and Sunspace) is proposed. This project will experimentally study how the Operative Temperature, a combination of the Mean Radiant Temperature and the Air Temperature, varies in direct (Direct Gain)and indirect (Roof-Pond, Water-Wall, Trombe-Wall, and Sunspace) passive solar strategies in both time and space. The experimental results will be correlated to the outdoor dry-bulb temperature and the solar global radiation to develop a design guideline to predict the number of hours in which a given strategy (at a certain distance from the "solar thermal mass") would produce comfortable conditions. The results, due at the end of 2002, will be made available through publication including the Renewable Energy Institute at Cal Poly.

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