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Title: Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems

Abstract

The grant objectives of the DOE grant funded project have been successfully completed. The Human Health Building (HHB) was constructed and opened for occupancy for the Fall 2012 semester of Oakland University. As with any large construction project, some issues arose which all were overcome to deliver the project on budget and on time. The facility design is a geothermal / solar-thermal hybrid building utilizing both desiccant dehumidification and variable refrigerant flow heat pumps. It is a cooling dominant building with a 400 ton cooling design day load, and 150 ton heating load on a design day. A 256 vertical borehole (320 ft depth) ground source heat pump array is located south of the building under the existing parking lot. The temperature swing and performance over 2013 through 2015 shows the ground loop is well sized, and may even have excess capacity for a future building to the north (planned lab facility). The HHB achieve a US Green Building Counsel LEED Platinum rating by collecting 52 of the total 69 available LEED points for the New Construction v.2 scoring checklist. Being Oakland's first geothermal project, we were very pleased with the building outcome and performance with the energy consumption approximatelymore » 1/2 of the campus average facility, on a square foot basis.« less

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Geothermal Technologies Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1314175
Report Number(s):
EE0002970-Final-Revised
DOE Contract Number:  
EE0002970
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; Geothermal; solar thermal; desiccant; heat pump; energy storage; HVAC; PV; photovoltaic

Citation Formats

Leidel, James. Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2172/1314175.
Leidel, James. Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1314175
Leidel, James. 2014. "Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1314175. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1314175.
@article{osti_1314175,
title = {Human Health Science Building Geothermal Heat Pump Systems},
author = {Leidel, James},
abstractNote = {The grant objectives of the DOE grant funded project have been successfully completed. The Human Health Building (HHB) was constructed and opened for occupancy for the Fall 2012 semester of Oakland University. As with any large construction project, some issues arose which all were overcome to deliver the project on budget and on time. The facility design is a geothermal / solar-thermal hybrid building utilizing both desiccant dehumidification and variable refrigerant flow heat pumps. It is a cooling dominant building with a 400 ton cooling design day load, and 150 ton heating load on a design day. A 256 vertical borehole (320 ft depth) ground source heat pump array is located south of the building under the existing parking lot. The temperature swing and performance over 2013 through 2015 shows the ground loop is well sized, and may even have excess capacity for a future building to the north (planned lab facility). The HHB achieve a US Green Building Counsel LEED Platinum rating by collecting 52 of the total 69 available LEED points for the New Construction v.2 scoring checklist. Being Oakland's first geothermal project, we were very pleased with the building outcome and performance with the energy consumption approximately 1/2 of the campus average facility, on a square foot basis.},
doi = {10.2172/1314175},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1314175}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}