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East Coast Green is offering over 30 continuing education sessions focused around individual topics tracks throughout the conference. Below is a detail of one of the courses. To see full course listing and times go back to Speaker Schedule. Click Here to go Back to complete Schedule
FR17B1 New Jersey Climate Choice Home (NJCCH) is a customized high performance tier of the New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes (NJESH) residential new construction program that can help Architects and Builders differentiate themselves by providing the resources to design and construct more energy efficient, green and sustainable buildings. The very high levels of building efficiency associated with this tier promote the construction of extremely low energy use homes, and through use of on-site and grid supplied renewable energy are anticipated to truly approach net-zero carbon emissions. This initiative and the homes that successfully complete participation to its standard will rank among the most advanced in the country. This session will not only provide detailed information about what a New Jersey Climate Choice Home is, and the program's Minimum Technical Standards, Builder Option Package, and Verification Compliance Checklists, but will also include a discussion of available financial incentives and a case study. Speaker: Mark MaGrann Download PDF of Presentation: Program Description: New Jersey Climate Choice Home (NJ CCH) is a customized high performance tier of the New Jersey ENERGY STAR Homes (NJESH) residential new construction program that can help Architects and Builders differentiate themselves by providing the resources to design and construct more energy efficient, green and sustainable buildings. New Jersey Climate Choice Home builds on success of the New Jersey and EPA ENERGY STAR Homes programs, and represents a giant leap toward the concept of net zero energy. The very high levels of building efficiency associated with this tier promote the construction of extremely low energy use homes, and through use of on-site and grid supplied renewable energy are anticipated to truly approach net-zero carbon emissions. This initiative and the homes that successfully complete participation to its standard will rank among the most advanced in the country. New Jersey Climate Choice Home incorporates an Integrated Design Team approach involving MaGrann Associates, as Project Manager (team lead), the Builder/GC, Architect, Trades/ Subcontractors, Homeowner (if known), an Energy Consultant or Performance Contractor (when used), and other participants, as needed, specific to project.
More specifically, the New Jersey Climate Choice Home presentation will include a detailed review of each of the prescriptive Minimum Technical Standards. Among the standards to be reviewed are: house size limitation; minimum HERS Index required for program eligibility; thermal envelope requirements (including minimum building envelope insulation levels, minimum window specifications (U- values and SHGC- values), etc.); site orientation (including passive solar design- related requirements); proper HVAC installation; requirements for efficiency and type of HVAC equipment; water heating system requirements dealing with equipment efficiencies and efficient distribution; ENERGY STAR lighting requirements; renewable energy requirements for solar electric and solar thermal; minimum appliance efficiencies; and moisture management requirements (including EPA Indoor AirPLUS specifications). Attendees will also learn about the role monitoring plays with building very high performance homes under New Jersey Climate Choice Homes. Monitoring is managed by NJIT and the Rutgers Center for Green Building. There will be a discussion of the data points to be monitored. These will include: indoor and outdoor temperature, and relative humidity; net electrical energy used; electrical energy used for central air conditioning; electricity from the installed PV system; solar thermal energy collected for domestic hot water; hot water consumption (water volume); total natural gas consumption; occupant behavior (including monitored appliance use and thermostat settings). The final portion of the presentation will focus on a case study of the first home certified under the New Jersey Climate Choice Home. The case study involves a very special home, located in Hillsdale, Bergen County. The home, built by Godsil Construction and a team of volunteers for the non-profit organization Homes For Our Troops, provided an extremely energy efficient, handicap- accessible, green and sustainable home for Marine Corporal Visnu Gonzalez, paralyzed as a result of an Iraqi war injury. In addition to being the first New Jersey Climate Choice Home, the home achieved LEED for Homes Platinum Certification. Project features and specifications, innovative technologies employed, energy modeling and inspection testing results, and incremental construction costs (to meet New Jersey Climate Choice Home requirements) will be reviewed.
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