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Green Building Colorado Court Project
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Program: The program for this single resident occupancy housing project includes:
- 44 single resident occupancy units (375 square feet max per unit)
- Community Room
- Mail Room
- Outdoor common courtyard spaces @ ground level and 2nd level
- On-grade covered parking for 20 cars
- Bike Storage
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Colorado Court will be one of the first buildings of its type
in the United States that is 100% energy independent. Colorado Court
distinguishes itself from most conventionally developed projects in
that it incorporates energy efficient measures that exceed standard
practice, optimize building performance, and ensure reduced energy use
during all phases of construction and occupancy. The planning and
design of Colorado Court emerged from close consideration and
employment of passive solar design strategies. These strategies
include: locating and orienting the building to control solar cooling
loads; shaping and orienting the building for exposure to prevailing
winds; shaping the building to induce buoyancy for natural ventilation;
designing windows to maximize daylighting; shading south facing windows
and minimizing west-facing glazing; designing windows to maximize
natural ventilation; shaping and planning the interior to enhance
daylight and natural air flow distribution.
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Colorado Court
features several state of the art technologies that distinguish it as a
model demonstration building of sustainable energy supply and
utilization. These technologies include a natural gas powered
turbine/heat recovery system that will generate the base electrical
load and hot water demands for the building and a solar electric panel
system integrated into the façade and roof of the building that will
supply most of the peak load electricity demand. The co-generation
system will convert utility natural gas to electricity to meet the base
load power needs of the building and will capture waste heat to produce
hot water for the building throughout the year as well as space heating
needs in the winter. This system will have a conversion efficiency of
natural gas in excess of 70% compared to a less than 30% conversion
efficiency of primary energy delivered by the utility grid at the
building site. The solar photovoltaic system will produce green
electricity at the building site that releases no pollutants to the
environment. The panels are integral to the building envelope and
unused solar electricity will be delivered to the grid during the
daytime and retrieved from the grid at night as needed. These systems
will pay for themselves in less than ten years and annual savings in
electricity and natural gas bills are estimated to be in excess of
$6000. Recipient of "The Westside Prize" presented by the westside
urban forum.
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Project Funding
This project was funded by:
The City of Santa Monica
State of California, Housing and Community Development
Regional Energy Efficiency Initiative
Affordable Housing Program
Bank of America
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Location of Project: 502 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California
Client/Owner: Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Total Square Footage: 30,150sf
Costs: $4,200,000.00
Architects:
PUGH SCARPA KODAMA
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave, F1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Project Team:
Lawrence Scarpa - Principal- in-Charge, Tim Peterson, Angela Brooks -
Project Architects, Peter Borrego, Gwynne Pugh , Anne Marie
Kaufman-Brunner, Anne Marie Burke, Nicole Cannon, Kelly Bair, Byron
Merritt, Heather Duncan, Vanessa Hardy, Bettina Hermsen, Franco Rosete,
Ching Luk, Joerg Niderehe, Sascha Engelhoven, Bill Sarnecky, Jae Kim,
Jackson Butler, Sabine Kainze, Charlie Morgan, Steve Kodama
Project Energy Engineer: Dr. John G. Ingersoll of Helios International Inc.
Structural Engineering: Youssef Associates Mechanical
Electrical Plumbing Engineering: Storms and Lowe
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Last updated: Thursday, 09/24/2009
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Real-Time Solar in Santa Monica
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| The 180 kW solar array atop the Civic Center Parking Structure can be monitored using a system called Fat Spaniel. To see the power output of this groundbreaking building, click on the images or here. |
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Now you can monitor solar energy production from the new Big Blue Bus facility as well. Click on the graphic below or here to access more real-time data.
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