Achieving Humanity’s Eco-potential – One Community Weekly Progress Update #432

This week the core team continued edits and additions to the “Best Small and Large-scale Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options ” article. This week we resized images to our standard width of 640px and added them into the page, embedded more videos that were missing, worked on the index of the page, and started to check that every link worked properly. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Edits and Additions to the Plastic Recycling Page – Click to Visit

The core team also updated the layout of the plywood for the loft floor for the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page.

Updated the Layout of the Plywood for the Loft Floor – Click for Earthbag Village Dome Home Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 50th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began adding the results of the maximum roof size with and without external columns when snow is present. He began by explaining the circumstances when building structures in snowy climates and the assumptions used to determine the maximum roof size and the maximum allowable snow depth. To illustrate the snow on the roof, Jose Luis utilized the SolidWorks model with and without the external columns. With the illustrations he was able to form a free body diagram for both instances. With 30in of snow as the depth, it was found that the original roof size without additional supports could not support the weight. The maximum snow depth the roof could handle was calculated instead and found to be 3.8in. Jose Luis then proceeded to elaborate the calculations and graphs used to determine the maximum roof size with external supports when 30in of snow is on the roof. He concluded his calculations in the narrative, with suggestions such as wooden columns with larger cross-sections or additional supports in the case of there being more than 30in of snow. The pictures below show some of this work.

Began Adding the Results of the Maximum Roof Size With and Without External Columns When Snow Is Present – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) also completed her 6th week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Katherine read the Garkane New Construction Handbook, and wrote our grid tie construction step and cost estimates based on it. Katherine also re-wrote the introduction part based on supervisor’s feedback. Moreover, Katherine proofread the whole report written by her, and made changes, did editing and formatting, and submitted it for feedback. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Grid-tie Connection Details for Our Solar Microgrid Designs – Click for Page

Prabhath Ekanayake (Electrical Engineering Assistant) completed his 5th week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Prabhath completed his areas of research and then proofread everything and submitted it for feedback. Below are some images related to this work.

Continued Working on the Grid-tie Connection Details for Our Solar Microgrid Designs – Click for Page

Nicholas K. de León (Project Management Adviser) completed his 4th week helping with review of Highest Good Housing research and related tasks. Nicholas returned this week and started with looking over the energy reports’ edits that had been made per suggestions from previous weeks. So far those that have been made looked good and many were cleared. Nicholas also got back to working on the bracket research for the City Center and summarized the viable information in a spreadsheet. Nicholas also worked on editing the Rabbit Stewardship article, getting more familiar with WordPress and direct adjustments in the process. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping With Review of Highest Good Housing Research and Related Tasks – Click for Housing Page

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas completed his onboarding tasks and started planning the Electric Vehicle and charging infrastructure for the community. He researched the options and segregated information regarding 5 golf carts and 1 Tesla model 3 with respect to their commercial, battery options and charging requirements. Shreyas started to find feasible options for 100% off-grid storage for the Solar-Farm application too. Pictures below relate to this work-in-progress.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Solar Microgrid Design Specifics Related to Electric Vehicles and Battery Sizing – Click for Page

This week the core team continued review and feedback on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. We reviewed the new additions to the Landscaping section on pages 66-69. We also resolved comments throughout the doc up to about page 69 and addressed the recent comments within this section. We then reviewed and edited the remainder of the handrail section beginning on page 76 and continued through the Bicycle Design section pages 79-86 and followed up with Road Design Specifics beginning on page 86-91, and then reviewed Porous Asphalt Design on pages 92-97. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Review and Feedback on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also started double checking all the angles for the City Center hub connector work.

Began Double Checking All the Angles for the City Center Hub Connector Work – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 25th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian updated the energy modeling narrative documents. He included in the documents the ASHRAE 90.1 requirements/tabulation of requirements for us to determine if the inputs are above the energy performance of the baseline. It is important that the energy efficiency of the proposed building design be more efficient than the baseline design for us to achieve the LEED Platinum Certification. We will measure the energy savings after we simulate the baseline design. Please see below updated progress photos for reference.

Updated the Energy Modeling Narrative Documents – Click for City Center Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week David began by reviewing and preparing the action items for his team. He used the progress updates doc to verify which items still need work and delegated tasks. He also worked on a cold climate hydrology paragraph for our location’s drainage plan, because our state is a state that sees an annual snowfall of approximately 22 inches. David also prepared a preliminary parking lot design for the parking lot. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued With Input and Management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial – Click for Page

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 11th and final week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. Rushabh updated the final report on the City Center hot tub spa. He researched further about the foundation materials used for in-ground hot tubs, comparing Aircrete and cinder blocks with traditional materials and then incorporating this into the model as our solution. Rushabh updated the model removing the air line and making graphics and flow diagrams of the foundation as well as the piping layout. Pictures below relate to this work from last week.

Updated the Final Report on the City Center Hot Tub Spa – Click for Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 10th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on adding details and making changes to her AutoCAD drawing according to David’s new comments and suggestions for sump pump construction details. In addition, she also wrote the introduction paragraph for the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Details” section. Furthermore, Carol edited the “Landscaping” section about native plants and other sections based on feedback. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Helping With the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial Development – Click for Page

Neel Shanbhag (Control Systems Electrical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week Neel finished working on the cut sheets, matched the properties, and also updated the spreadsheet and the dropbox. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page

John Aquino (Electrical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week, John updated the base plan backgrounds per the City Center Master drawing file. Additionally, the Equipment subfolder within the Electrical folder has been organized to include Kitchen, Mechanical, and Electrical equipment. Initial specifications for electrical equipment to serve HVAC equipment has been provided. Project set-up document is still a work-in-progress. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page

This week the core team completed 34 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. Also more testing and bug identification was done within the Beta version of the Highest Good Network software.

Continued Testing and Bug Identification for the Beta Version of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

The core team also completely updated the badges outline for the Highest Good Network software team to follow for creation of the next round of functionality there.

Completely Updated the Badges Outline for the Highest Good Network Software Team – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 31st week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #502, #503, #504, #505, and #506. You can see all these new images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #502, #503, #504, #505, and #506 – Click for Most Recent Blog

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 29th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris created the DB schema and mockups for the Materials/Items input component, he stubbed out the Inventory APIs and wrote comments on how to implement for OJ to work on, created the Cronjob to award badges, and started working on the infringement streak type. Pictures below are related to this work.

Created the DB Schema and Mockups for the Materials/items Input Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 20th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru mainly worked on making the filters have more than one option in the same filter list. Now the users can select both food and housing in classification filters. She also added the resources number to the collapse button. The pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on the Highest Good Network Software Filters – Click for Page

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