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    Daylighting Patient Rooms in Northwest Hospitals
    (Institute for Health in the Built Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-10) Brown, G.Z.; Brickman, Johanna; Kline, Jeff; Livingston, Gina; McDonald, Brooks; Smith, Crawford; Staczek, David; Wilkerson, Mark
    This section is intended to enable hospital design professionals to quickly understand the basic principles of hospital patient room daylighting design in order to apply them in their current design projects. It delineates the important variables such as room width and depth, and describes how they interact. The section concludes with 10 prototype patient room designs that represent a range of possibilities for typical hospital design. The potential benefits from daylighting patient rooms are energy savings and increased patient well-being. Lights can be turned off when daylight is available, saving electrical energy. Turning off the electric lights can reduce internal heat gain, which in turn reduces the size of the cooling system, reducing both initial and operating costs. Proper placement of the windows increases the opportunity for views and the availability of daylight, both of which can improve patient wellbeing.
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    Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program: Summary FY 1996 Research Activities
    (Institute for Health in the Built Environment, University of Oregon, 1996) Bjornson, Dana; Brown, G.Z.; Dorsett, Erik; Kline, Jeff; Fremouw, Sean; Northcutt, Dale; Schneider, Marshall; Sloot, Marc; Raney, Marie; Sekiguchi, Tomoko; Beal, David; Chandra, Subrato; Downing, Andrew; Rudd, Armin; McIlvaine, Janet; Armacost, Robert; Gawlik, Tom; Malek, Mag; Mullens, Mike; Rheborg, Mats
    This report summarizes research results from March 1996 to February 1997 for the Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program. One of our research focuses was stressed skin insulating core (SSIC) panel construction. SSIC panels, which carry their loads entirely through their skins, are of interest because they eliminate thermal bridging caused by studs and they easily form airtight construction reducing air infiltration. We completed three projects with SSIC panels - an entry-level house design for nonprofit developers, a new floor and foundation system, and a study of alternative skins for the panels.