Energy Performance Recommendations Inform Plans and Incentives for Multi-family Housing Associated with Rail Development
Assistant professor Wendy Meguro and consultant WSP, an engineering firm, identified energy targets and effective energy efficiency measures in multi-family buildings and estimated the effects of future warmer weather on occupant thermal comfort and air conditioning energy use. The subjects of the analyses are speculative multi-family buildings on State land in the Waipahu transit-oriented development area. They presented the report and findings to the State of Hawaiʻi Office of Planning, State of Hawaiʻi Energy Office, and Hawaiʻi Energy. The research provided valuable insight to leverage in financial rebate or incentives and provides visionary, valuable technical information and a foundation for future work.
This research has been a collaboration between The University of Hawai’i’s: Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute’s energy efficiency program, School of Architecture’s Environmental Research and Design Lab and Sea Grant College Program and consultants from WSP.
Publications
Title : Estimating Thermal Comfort and Energy Use with Future Warmer Weather
Presentations
Wendy Meguro with colleagues, Elliot Glassman from WSP, and John Delaney from Koning Eizenberg, prepared and gave a talk on “Designing Zero Energy Multifamily Buildings” moderated by Brian Kealoha from Hawaii Energy at the AIA Honolulu Design + Architecture event on September 30, 2021. The talk was part of a two-day event with local, national, and international speakers https://dna-hawaii.com/.