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August 2010
Visit CSBR at the Great Minnesota Get-Together
CSBR will be at the Minnesota State Fair on Wednesday, September 1, from 5pm-9pm. Come learn more about our center and get a sneak peak of Sustainable Shelter, a new exhibit about sustainable building, opening in October at the Bell Museum of Natural History. You can find us in the University of Minnesota Building, 2 blocks west of Gate 5 on Dan Patch Avenue (map).
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August 2010
CSBR has partnered with the Bell Museum of Natural History to develop
an exciting new museum exhibit: Sustainable
Shelter—Dwelling within the Forces of Nature. The exhibit
explores that ways in which the built environment interacts with natural
systems through the extraction, use, and disposal of energy, water, and
other precious natural resources. Exhibit runs October 16, 2010-May 15, 2011
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August 2010
CSBR has been awarded $25,000 in a matching grant from the Initiative
for Renewable Energy and the Environment for research on a Solar Canopy
Illumination System that provides daylight to the core (i.e. interior
regions) of multifloor office buildings, in order to substantially
reduce the need for electric lighting and therefore reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. In collaboration with 3M and the University of British
Columbia, the team will install, monitor, and conduct design research on
the solar canopy daylighting system in Rapson Hall at the University of
Minnesota.
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July 2010
CSBR Fellow William Weber led Arch 5550: Sustainable Infrastructure & Urban Renewal, a seven week vertical studio to first and second year master of architecture students at the School of Architecture, UMN this spring. This course asserts that the ability to understand systems, networks, and flows can lead to opportunities to design not only concrete physical solutions, but the processes that underlie and support our cities and towns. The student work form Spring 2010 can be seen on the course web site.
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July 2010
U to lead DOE initiative on home energy efficiency in cold climates
A public-private partnership led by University of Minnesota researchers has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop cost-effective solutions that dramatically reduce the average energy use of housing while improving comfort and quality.
The project will be led by Pat Huelman of the University's Cold Climate Housing Program and John Carmody of the U's Center for Sustainable Building Research. The project incorporates scientists from a broad range of disciplines and will use research facilities throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin to help develop strategies not only for energy technologies but for making those technologies available and understandable to all communities.
Read entire news release.
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July 2010
Saint Paul Sustainable Building Policy
The city of St. Paul, in partnership with CSBR, received $50,000 in
funding from the Minnesota State Energy Sector Partnership to design and
implement a pilot program to develop tools and provide training to those
who will be responsible for implementing and/or complying with the new
Saint Paul Sustainable Building Policy.
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July 2010
U of MN ICON Solar House wins Top Projects of 2009 award from Finance and Commerce
CSBR staff Jonee Kulman Brigham and Dan Handeen have were actively involved the Solar Decathlon project. They were part of an interdisciplinary team that worked very hard to accomplish a 5th place standing in the competition in Fall of 2009. U of MN ICON Solar House team members receive Top Projects of 2009 award
from Finance and Commerce at an awards presentation and reception in Minneapolis on July 15, 2010.
More information →
www.solardecathlon.umn.edu →
http://www.solardecathlon.gov/past/2009 →
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