{"322701":{"#nid":"322701","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Architecture students work to design net-zero energy apartments","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA net-zero building is not only specially engineered to maximize energy savings, but also generates its own renewable energy\u2014through methods such as solar panels\u2014to cancel out the consumption of electricity and gas. \u0026nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s very easy to be energy efficient these days,\u201d says Michael Gamble, M Arch \u002791, associate professor of architecture at Tech. \u201cHowever, I would say there\u2019s sort of an 80\/20 rule. It\u2019s the 80 percent effort to achieve energy efficiency that\u2019s pretty easy and inexpensive. The last 20 percent of working toward net-zero energy consumption\u2014or even positive energy generation\u2014is where it gets much more challenging.\u201d Gamble is working with fellow Tech professors Godfried Augenbroe, Daniel Castro, Russell Gentry, Jason Brown and recent alumnus Stephen Taul, M Arch \u002712, MCRP \u002712, to lead a group of graduate architecture students on a three-year project to design, build and eventually occupy a net-zero energy apartment building near campus.\u0026nbsp;Gamble says Tech students certainly aren\u2019t the only ones attempting to create net-zero energy buildings today. But what makes this project unique is that they are tailoring their designs specifically to the challenges of modern, urban life in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2014-09-08 14:10:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:14","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/gtalumnimag.com\/2014\/09\/living-in-net-zero\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"102291","name":"apartment"},{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"102281","name":"net-zero"},{"id":"102301","name":"urban building"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}