Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Colorado Springs Cohousing - 10 openings

[John Conner (jconner]

The 'Solar Rough-ins' are pre-installed pipes and conduit for
future solar hot water and or photo voltaic installations on
the homes with use able solar roof orientations.  The rough in
hot water lines are all pressure tested and sealed. The conduit
has a pull wire installed.  When we go to install solar hot
water and/or photo voltaic panels on the roof the really hard
parts will already be done.  We will not have to open up walls
to do a clean installation.  The additional cost for the
rough-in was about $700 per unit.

Now if we had not had to value engineer out the between units
conduit for phone/cable/ethernet .......

At 08:31 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Fred H Olson wrote:
>
> > Our homes will be Green-Built, and have
> > five-star Energy-Star ratings and solar access rough-ins.
>
> What does 'solar access rough-ins' mean exactly? It sounds
> like something we should do with our design.
>
> Andrew
> Santa Cruz CA



Sharon,

Hydronic - hot water heat.  The main floor of the common house has
in floor hot water heat in addition to the passive solar input.
The second floor has standard hot water radiators (not the big
old steam ones).  In the future we plan to add solar hot water for
at least some of the hot water needs.  And at least a small
demo PV array.

The financing was through standard construction financing. It helped
to have Wonderland Hill and Art Klien Construction. They both have
good records.  The Common house was planned to be an integral part
of the project from the start and funded as part of the project just
like the streets and sidewalks. (The first asphalt layer was put in
last Saturday.)


John Conner
jconner [at] EmpireDI.com
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