High Performing Buildings - Winter 2011 - (Page 32)
Above An overhang and north-facing windows provide diffuse natural light. The glass roof (bottom left) of the Living Machine creates a greenhouse-like environment and provides sunlight to help drive the natural processes that break down wastewater. Left A screen shot of the real-time Building Dashboard system illustrates the data that is available online at www.oberlin. edu/ajlc and at an atrium kiosk in the Lewis Center. The touch screen display allows visitors to easily interact with and explore the environmental performance of the building. Website administrators have tracked more than 70,000 hits per year to the site, with approximately one quarter of these hits originating from outside of the United States. The precursor of this Building Dashboard display was developed by Oberlin students.
It is important to recognize that the ecological value added by the on-site wastewater treatment comes at an added energy cost that includes an additional mechanical and heating load that is not present in most other buildings.
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