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Sustainable Design of SunShower SSIP House by Tulane University Professors

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 11:57 PM PDT

This is REOSE SunShower SSIP House, a sustainable prefab house designed by Judith Kinnard and Tiffany Lin, from Tulane University. This home won a a competition involving steel SIPs from OceanSafe. This home was designed to deal with extreme weather conditions and good energy efficiency.

This eco construction is located at 222 Harrison Avenue, New Orleans. It was designed to be built with readily available and standard building materials, that can be fit into a single cargo container. The house was aimed to provide easy installment in an disaster area that need a mass home solution immediately.

The sustainable architecture building uses SSIP panels made from EPS core and galvalume panels that snap together. It is aimed to withstand winds of up to 225 mph and an earthquake of up to an 8.6 magnitude. Some sustainable features are also provided, such as 5 kW photovoltaic panels as sustainable energy source, rainwater catchment system that may handle 1,000 gallon of rain water. solar thermal, geothermal, a small wind turbine, and back-up batteries are also available to backup the energy needs.