Kimberley's Green Building Seminar Series: Practical and Effective Solar Heating

June 19 • 8:30 am to 4:30 pm • COTR Kimberley Campus • Cost: $149
Contact: Wildsight 250.427.2535.
To register: College of the Rockies, 250.427.7116, ext. 3752

Green Building Seminar: Solar Heating
Building on Tang Lee's excellent seminar during the recent Building Sustainability Conference, this one-day workshop will teach you how to approach the design and construction of practical solar heating systems, and methods to save energy as well as using the ground for air tempering. It will focus on simple off-the-shelf components that can be easily incorporated into new or existing buildings, providing solar heating in an inexpensive and practical way.

The workshop will begin with an understanding of energy conservative design, from the form of the building to good thermal enclosures. Then it will discuss how solar radiation can be captured for solar water and space heating.

This workshop will also discuss the advantages of an attached sunspace and how it can be retrofitted into an existing house to reduce heat loss, and to heat water and space.

This is also a hands-on workshop where you can try out a user friendly computer programme to optimize the system considered, including the angle of the sun, azimuth orientation, select different configurations, etc.

The presentation materials will be simple enough for most people to understand. However, participants would benefit more from this workshop if they have some understanding of design or construction.

Tang Lee has been an architecture professor at the University of Calgary for over 30 years. He is one of Canada's solar pioneers, designing the first solar house in 1975, and continues to simplify solar designs to be practical and cost effective