Milwaukie Courtyard Housing Project (MCHP) Energy Analysis
| dc.contributor.author | Fretz, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mahic, Alen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Northcutt, Dale | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sheine, Judith | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stenson, Jason | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-17T23:03:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-17T23:03:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02 | |
| dc.description | 42 pages | |
| dc.description.abstract | Our society is facing a set of converging challenges. Climate change, with its associated health impacts, social inequalities, homelessness, access to healthcare, caring for an aging population, unaffordable housing and a pandemic are all affecting the health of individuals, communities and the planet. The Milwaukie Courtyard Housing Project (MCHP) is a proposed systematic response to these challenges through the innovative use of panelized Mass Plywood Panel (MPP) wood products in single-family residential construction coupled with new urban cluster housing infill development and infrastructure models. Higherdensity courtyard infill housing of small individual or paired units can provide an alternative to multifamily developments in traditional single-family neighborhoods for what is called “workforce housing” aimed at affordability at 80% -120% of area median income (AMI). By working to meet Net Zero energy goals, the homes are designed to be energy efficient, have significantly less embodied carbon than light wood frame assemblies, and be affordable to middle income families. The MPP panelized designs are optimized for aesthetics, affordability, energy efficiency, resilience and biophilic benefits of wood. This new approach to residential construction seeks to decrease land costs per unit, reduce travel distances to work and play (thus, lowered transportation carbon emissions and cost savings), and provides shared ‘grid-enhancing’ solar microgrid energy and water infrastructure. This infrastructure will provide benefits to the larger grid during normal conditions while being capable of sustaining operations within the courtyard “cluster” during grid-disrupting events. The courtyard cluster model is intended to be large enough to take advantage of economies of scale but small enough to facilitate construction without requiring significant municipal investment. On-site infrastructure is intended to increase the resiliency of water and energy resources while reducing lifetime operational costs. The research and development team hopes to demonstrate that this approach is affordable over time and thereby increase access to resilient clean energy and water resources in underserved communities that are increasingly exposed to the adverse impacts of climate change. The Milwaukie Courtyard Housing Project brings an affordable, replicable, mass timber, smallplex solution to a overpriced housing market. The project addresses overlapping issues that are designed to benefit the end users, including Energy Trust customers: smart densification, sustainable building, and below market-rate housing. All aspects of the project are ‘energy sensitive,’ from the design to the construction of the energy-efficient homes themselves. The energy efficiency goals will contribute to housing affordability for Energy Trust customers. | |
| dc.format | Article | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/30121 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Health in the Built Environment, University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
| dc.subject | energy model | |
| dc.subject | net zero energy construction | |
| dc.subject | Energy Trust | |
| dc.subject | Milwaukie Courtyard Housing Project | |
| dc.title | Milwaukie Courtyard Housing Project (MCHP) Energy Analysis | |
| dc.type | Other |