East Baltimore Community and Early Childhood Center

Project Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Architecture Firm: Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC, New York NY
Project type: Kindergarten/K-8 School
Floor Area: 124,879 GSF

The East Baltimore Community and Early Childhood Center is a complex structure of one and two-story buildings, which consists of early child care, kindergarten, family resource center, library, administration, K-8 school, music and art classes, auditorium, food service, and gymnasium. Climatic Design LLC has performed a whole-building energy model simulation, a comprehensive energy analysis and an assessment of the building systems and configuration for this project. Multiple Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) were modeled for comparison. Simulation results demonstrated that with the execution of the recommended ECMs, the project will meet Minimum Energy Performance. The facility is 28.847% ($56,069/yr) more efficient than the ASHRAE 90.1-2007 Baseline case.

Based on the simulation results, for this project CDL recommended the following ECMs be implemented:
1) ECM-6: Control interior lighting of all spaces with windows and/or skylights. Two Sensors, 50% Lights Controlled to 50 fc.
2) ECM-4: Select high performance windows with maximum U-0.29 center of glass and aluminum frames with thermal breaks.
3) ECM-7: Reduce internal lighting power density
4) ECM-1: Additional Roof Insulation; Increase R-value of roofs from R-21 (Baseline) to R-32
5) ECM-2: Additional Wall Insulation; Increase R-value of Exterior walls from R-16 (Baseline) to R-22