Discuss how you might reduce energy consumption for refrigeration, lighting, cooling, heating, and water heating through various green building strategies.
What will be an ideal response?
Refrigeration: use more energy efficient refrigerators
Lighting: Use daylighting, more energy efficient bulbs, and controls (timers, motion sensors), solar-powered exterior lighting
Heating and cooling: Passive heating and cooling through building architecture, a smaller building with less of a load demand, a very tight thermal envelope with high R-value through construction and materials, using energy efficient HVAC equipment, using a whole-house fan instead of air conditioning, solar thermal heating systems, use of controls such as set-back thermostats
Water heating: Solar hot water systems, energy efficient fossil-based systems, on demand instead of storage tank systems
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