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INTRODUCTION DESIGNING FOR ZERO CARBON, VOL. 2
population by age (“senior housing”), social group (“formerly homeless veterans”) or special needs (“transition-age youths”).
The Multifamily Case Study Projects in This Book
Similar to previous volumes in this series, five projects were selected as both representative of exemplary design and also a variety of building types across a range of California climates. These were selected from a list of almost fifty candidate projects, all recently completed and successful in their all-electric design features and performance. They include new and renova- tion projects, market-rate or affordable housing, and rental units as well as buildings with units for sale.
Because of this large diversity of types of multifamily residential projects as described above, an additional nine projects were selected and summarized in the Epilogue section of this book. These additional projects have a particularly unique aspect of their program, building structure or financial constraints that make them especially noteworthy. Though not detailed case studies like the five featured projects, the summary information provides comparative data and leads to follow-up with further study.
The following page shows a diagrammatic map of California with the locations of the five case study projects. The locations of the remaining candidate projects that were examined in the development of this book are indicated in the same map to demonstrate that the adoption of the all-electric design approach has had widespread distribution throughout the state. A detailed version of this map, identifying and locating all the projects, appears in the Epilogue section beginning on page 116.
These projects communicate the breadth and scope of electrification in multifamily projects al- ready happening throughout the state. In fact, this trend is accelerating and is not limited to just one type of housing construction, as the range of projects in this volume shows.
Hopefully, the projects discussed in this volume will provide design professionals with tangible examples of electrification success stories to help them in their work as the code moves to favor integrated renewables with electrification.
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