Central heat pump water heater (CHPWH) systems serve the domestic hot water needs of a building in one central plant. Though they have become a key decarbonization technology by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and saving energy and costs, their complex design and installation requirements can pose barriers to widespread adoption. Packaged systems reduce this complexity by simplifying design and installation.
Built in 1909, Newcomer Hall at the Maryland School for the Blind in Baltimore, Md., is a private, nonprofit, state-supported institution attended by 73 percent of Maryland’s 1,800 blind or visually impaired students, age 3 to 20. The brick building provides space for early learning and elementary, middle, and high school programs. Due to its age, the building required a major restoration project that completely renovated the interior...
One of only four Carnegie Halls still in continuous use as a performance space, the Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, W. Va., has hosted a wide variety of performers and artists since its opening in 1902. While the building's meticulous preservation has kept it as beautiful and impressive as it was more than a century ago, the building’s historic nature has led to increasingly higher energy bills every year...
This demonstration is one in a series of advanced lighting demonstration projects being completed through a joint initiative between the DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) and the U.S. Department of Energy