Lied Animal Shelter Animal campus Renewable Energy Demonstration Project

Spitzmesser, Randy

Lied Animal Foundation

关键词: Windows Photovoltaics;    Greenhouse Effect;    Monitoring;    01 Coal, Lignite, And Peat;    Animals;   

DOI  :  10.2172/861493
RP-ID  :  001
RP-ID  :  FG36-04GO14262
RP-ID  :  861493

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Animal Shelter campus plan includes a new adoption center coupled with a dog adoption park, a wellness/veterinary technician education center, a show arena, and an addition to the existing shelter that will accommodate all animal control and sheltering for the Las Vegas Valley. The new facility will provide a sophisticated and innovative presentation of the animals to be adopted in an attempt to improve the public's perception of shelter animals. Additionally, the Regional Animal Campus will be a ''green building'', embodying a design intent on balancing environmental responsiveness, resource efficiency and cultural and community sensitivity. Designing an energy-efficient building helps reduce pollution from burning fossil fuels, reduce disturbance of natural habitats for the harvesting of resources and minimizes global warming. The project will be a leader in the use of renewable energy by relying on photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, and solar collectors to produce a portion of the project's energy needs The building will operate more efficiently in comparison to a typical shelter through the use of monitoring and specialized cooling/heating equipment. Windows bringing in natural daylight will reduce the center's demand for electricity.