Building America in Alaska II

CCHRC was awarded a second grant from the Department of Energy for a State Energy Program Special Project award to continue our work on the Building America program. The goals: 1)to develop builder's education courses on BAA approaches to residential construction and to continue education and promotion of Building America techniques to the Alaskan building industry; 2)testing and monitoring of the Building America houses constructed in Alaska in 2001 to assess their performance; and 3)to develop a Building America strategy to address the cold, wet climate of Southeast Alaska which will include construction of a test module for testing wall panels for moisture, durability and energy efficiency. A power point presentation of the 4 hour class is available from CCHRC. A Final Report is included here. The CCHRC Mobile Test Lab (MTL) was constructed in North Pole and shipped to Juneau in January 2003. Students of Construction Technology at the University of Alaska SE constructed and monitored various wall systems in the test module for a year. MTL photo The REMOTE wall out performed other wall sections in terms of drying. The Final Report has been submitted to AHFC. The MTL has new wall panels, new equipment and is continuing to be monitored under funding from AHFC. Please see Mobile Test Lab under Current Research.