Green Buildings
ST122 ETP
This Green Buildings module investigates the need to design and construct buildings using environmentally efficient methods and resources. It also explores the potential for reducing energy consumption and evaluates alternative forms of energy production on micro generation scale.
Topic areas include:
- Energy in buildings
- Home wind turbines
- Home solar electric systems
- Energy for heating buildings
- Home solar water heating systems
- Insulation
- Glass in construction
- Heat pumps
- Air-conditioning
- Building a sunroom
Activities include:
- Investigate the energy use of a house
- Identify how solar power is used for creating electricity in the home
- Measure the temperature gain of a solar powered water heating system
- Identify how heat loss occurs in buildings
- Test the effectiveness of insulation materials
- Compare the efficiency of single and double glazing
- Generate electricity using a wind turbine
- Identify the fundamental concepts of air-conditioning
- Design, construct and test a model sunroom
Resources in this program:
- Hands-on investigations
- Building projects
- Software explorers
- Theory presentations
- Assessments
Presentations include:
- Energy in Buildings
- Energy and Power
- Small Scale Wind Turbines
- Introduction to Solar Electric
- Introduction to Heat Transfer
- Introduction to Solar Water Heating
- Insulating Buildings
- Introduction to Glass
- Heat Pumps
Interactive Explorers include:
- Energy in Buildings
- Heating
- Heat Loss and Insulation
- Glazing
- Air Conditioning
Hardware items supplied with ST122 ETP:
- Wind Turbine and desk fan
- Solar Lamp
- The ECO Building including...
- Solar PV panels for electricity generation
- Solar thermal pumped water heating system
- Heating room with loft space for insulation and glazing experiments
- Air-conditioned room with moveable ceiling
- Super capacitor for electrical storage
- Electronic control of transducers, inputs and outputs
- Input for Wind Turbine and auxiliary power devices
How to Order
| Product: | Green Buildings |
| Code: | ST122 ETP |
