04-01-16 2 Geeks, 2 Houses on Martha's Vineyard Pro Tour

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Spend a day on Martha’s Vineyard touring two recently completed high-performance houses. The first house is a completely new structure, purpose-built to incorporate high performing energy systems and materials. The second house is a deep energy retrofit, where an existing house was reworked to become a net zero home. Hear about the different approaches to these projects, which required different strategies to achieve the same energy goals.

Brice Delhougne and Marc Rosenbaum are the building energy geeks at South Mountain Company and these are the houses they built for their families. These guys are hands-on and measure a lot, so they understand some of the less obvious aspects of how the houses and systems perform.

 

Schedule:

11:45 AM

Board the Steamship Authority Ferry, (departs at noon) from Woods Hole

12:45 PM

Arrive at Vineyard Haven; bus picks up attendees and brings them to meeting point

1:00 PM

Arrive at Meeting Point, check in, welcome by NESEA

1:50 PM

Travel to Oak Bluff (Site 1)

1:30 PM

Tour of Oak Bluff Residence

2:10 PM

Travel to West Tisbury (Site 2)

2:30 PM

Tour of West Tisbury Residence

3:15 PM

Reconvene for reception and talk

3:30 PM

Reception with light refreshments

4:00 PM

Presentation / Q & A with Marc Rosenbaum and Brice Delhougne

 

Site 1 - Oak Bluffs Residence: Recently Constructed Home

Home features

  • Newly constructed home, completed in June, 2014
  • Single family house, with 1,300 square footage
  • Superinsulated and extremely air tight at 40-45 CFM50! European tilt-turn windows, solar hot water, single zone minisplit heat pump
  • Single zone minisplit heat pump wall cassette, solar thermal hot water, HRV
  • Energy use of about 7,000 kWh/year, all-electric - includes onsite wastewater treatment

Site 2- West Tisbury Residence: Deep Energy Retrofit

Home features

  • Newly renovated home; this deep energy retrofit was completed in January, 2015
  • House has a square footage of 1,300 ft.
  • The envelope is water-blown closed and open cell spray foam, with triple glazed US windows. The systems are a fully-ducted minisplit heat pump, a heat pump water heater, an ERV, and 4.76 kW of PV.
  • Net zero, about 2,000 kWh/year net export
When
April 1st, 2016 from  1:00 PM to  5:00 PM
Event Fee(s)
NESEA members pay $25, non-NESEA members pay $35. $35.00