Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Imagine what we can accomplish by building open source sustainable cities. We can create cities that are healthier, more fun to live in, more productive, durable, affordable and safer. One Community is creating the open source plans to establish DIY versions of these that will function as the teacher/demonstration hubs needed for global implementation and expansion.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 31st, 2021 edition (#410) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable cities through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We researched galvanized flashing thicknesses to determine availability and feasible for covering the interior perimeter foundation insulation in the aircrete/earthbag domes. We also reviewed and researched new work in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 regarding slope drainage and how it relates to soil types. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also finished building the Loft frame for Earthbag Village  domes according to the latest updated AutoCAD. Updates were related to the spacing between two middle joists, and changes to the overhead storage-entrance opening.

Finished Building the Loft Frame for Domes According to the Latest Updated AutoCAD – Click for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #212 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the ceiling-mounted TV in the up position and adding the imagery to it.

Modeled the Ceiling-mounted TV in the Up Position and Added the Imagery to It – Click for Earthbag Village

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan to coincide with the roof access updates in the Solid Works rendering. The updates included step-by-step diagrams of the roof saddle rafts construction. The rafts are cut at compound angles, but by breaking it down the process was simplified. The OBD sheathing was updated to include dimensions on where the flat head screws were to be installed. The roof saddle flash had to be updated as well to take into account the peak that is formed from the contact of the two pieces of OBD sheathing touching. The original flash that was over the peak had to be cut into two separate pieces with one of the cuts being angled to take into account the ending slope. More dimensions were added to the remaining diagrams to have more descriptive illustrations. With the completed updates, he then added more diagrams to the roof access flash installation section of the tutorial. He included descriptive instructions under the majority of the diagrams and completed the draft of the section. The pictures below show some of this work.

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Roof Plan to Coincide With the Roof Access Updates in the Solid Works Rendering – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 25th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on working on updating the components page. There are screws and nails and other parts that were not included in the assembly for the installation of some of the components. Some parts might come with their own screws and some we might need to add specialty lengths to the list just for those items. Realizing there are a lot more pieces than had been laid out before in the draft, Stacey is revisiting the links and getting new images to remake the page – making sure to list out the pages where the items are being used and also adding descriptions where needed. Pictures below are related to this latest progress.

Worked on Updating the Components Page of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by revising the loft design process and continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She revised the loft design process to include more narrative and imagery. She also continued to analyze different options for interior floor trimming, finished the initial draft of Section 4 (Footer Construction) in the FFF doc, and eliminated Section 5 (Compass Installation) of the FFF doc to combine its information with relevant info in Section 3 (Centerpoint Re-Establishment) of the document. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Revised the Loft Design Process and Continued Work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark finished the table to the temporary parking lot and made his recommendation. He also made corrections to his original parking lot design. In addition to this he did research on drainage design, walkway design, and roadway design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 3rd week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson edited the section from the last two weeks with a better format and strikethroughs for the unnecessary details. He finished the explanation of new sections: “ Soil Characteristics”, “Climate”, and “Existing Pavement Type and Condition”. He also introduced the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), California R-value, engineering alternatives for expansive soils, the map of California pavement climate regions, and the consideration for reviewing existing pavement type and condition. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 2nd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente worked on the creation of a spreadsheet to assess the energy balance and solar system size. Preliminary calculations have been made with the support of the online software PVgis and complementary calculations by SAM (downloadable energy simulation software developed by NREL). Other support software was identified and the action plan has been updated including a section for the legal and economic aspects. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable cities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team worked with Uponor to identify the best locations for the City Center HVAC radiant floor.

Worked With Uponor to Identify the Best Locations for the City Center HVAC Radiant Floor

The core team also made planting updates for the area around the City Center.

Made Planting Updates for the Area Around the City Center – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 22nd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela implemented requested edits from last week to her lightbulb tutorial and added pictures to the product descriptions. She created a written list of the best lightbulbs and added in an explanation of her ranking. Then, she continued to work on the non-recyclables tutorial, adding in images and video links. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulb and the Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Lightbulb Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. She spent this week researching hydraulic calculations and plumbing design details for the 3rd floor bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work.

Researched Hydraulic Calculations and Plumbing Design Details for the 3rd Floor Bathrooms – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Based on feedback, Qiuheng revised the planting plan and planting list and continued to work on the 3D model. She added in all the canopy layers, as shown below. Below are some images showing her work.

Revised the Planting Plan and Planting List and Continued to Work on the 3D Model – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 12th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy finished some edits for e-waste and construction waste, and researched adding a universal waste category, which would combine two of the current categories and add some more specificity. We now know we’d like to have a better and more concise category for goods containing common but hazardous materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Edits for E-waste and Construction Waste, and Researched Adding a Universal Waste Category – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 8th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian revised the construction appearance of the entrance and revised the dormer windows to the latest design and updated the material data of it for energy modeling. Ian also arranged all the site data of the windows and doors considering the quality and the affordability of it without compromising the total energy savings of the building. Progress photos are below.

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations to Help Us Achieve LEED Platinum Status for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 4th week as a member of the team and now focusing on the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week’s focus was the gutter and downspout design. Haozhen Worked on researching our state drainage code and precipitation and then selected proper downspout to attach with the 6″ K-style gutter. He then created a 3D detailed part in DWG format. The fascia and soffit design was also created in a 3D DWG file format. Unrelated to this, he also helped with some research on the thermal diffusivity and absorptivity for different soil properties. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on the Gutter and Downspout Design for the City Center Water Catchment – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable cities through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week the team updated images with correct sheeting size for the East and West walls. We also finished generating images for the South wall assembly including images for the upper portion of the wall with the two windows. We created images for the double plates placement step too.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions

The core team also started editing the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship content. We moved all the text from the development Google Doc to our wordpress page, created the index, formatted a good part of the anchors and headers, and also added rabbit images to one of the tables and exported it in the right format. While doing this we also made some small tweaks to the automation tool we are developing for this same editing process.

Started Editing the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship Content – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu figured out how to put the Revit’s model into Rhino, made needed minor updates to the new structures in Rhino, and updated the model in Lumion. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini:Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.  This week Henry continued work on the matlab program. He troubleshooted by breaking the program down into small sections and testing each section. He has reached out to his teammate Mayur and will be meeting next week to go over the code and the specific problem. Henry’s hopeful that the matlab program will be finished soon and looks forward to that day. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini Structures – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 6th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md made a rough sketch to analyze the exact location of the components in order to do the electrical wiring. For 100 amp breaker panel service, a 2-gauge non-metallic sheathed electrical cable is recommended. The cable must contain one or two hot wires depending on needs, one neutral wire, and one ground wire. Each wire should be 2-gauge in size. Underground Feeder (UF) is also recommended. It is a type of nonmetallic cable designed for wet locations and direct burial in the ground and commonly used for supplying outdoor fixtures. Total electrical cost for Individual Walipini had also researched. Considering placement of equipment’s total wiring cost is $589.28 (wiring length: 254’ and wiring cost per ft=$2.32), Breaker cost $50 (Size: 100 Amp, can hold 20 circuits. 20 full size breakers only) and the central bulb cost $8.00 (60watt, Brightness: 800 Lumens, Energy used: 8-Watt) for individual Walipini. Other costs might be taken into consideration: labor cost, permit license cost inspection cost, miscellaneous cost etc. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Worked on the Aquapini:Walipini Electrical Layout – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he researched about the different soils that can be used in the climate battery and is working on determining their thermal properties (‘a’ – absorptivity, ‘a0’ – thermal diffusivity, ‘e’ – emissivity, ‘k’ – thermal conductivity) in order to find the most efficient soil. Mayur figured out all the properties but one (e) and is working on determining the last one. These properties will help determine the optimum burial depth for the climate battery. He worked on the matlab code for the burial depth while keeping the emissivity constant for now. The graphs for the temperature of the soils throughout the day are pretty much similar. Mayur will check the results again after figuring out the emissivity of the soils. He will continue this and see how the different thermal properties are affecting the burial depth. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Researched About the Different Soils That Can Be Used in Climate Battery and Is Working on Determining Their Thermal Properties – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable cities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable cities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 23 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.

The core team also completed our nonprofit tax filing process.

Completed Our Nonprofit Tax Filing Process – Click for Page

And a detailed review and initial formatting of the One Community’s insurance options research.

Did a Detailed Review and Initial Formatting of the Health Insurance Options Research – Click for Page

The core team additionally completed our 7th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we began reviewing the values of Community and Sustainability. The introduction to the Sustainability page was re-written and anchor and other formatting was fixed. WE also wrote an additional FAQ for the value of Consensus explaining how traditional and consensus voting are different. In preparation for adequately reviewing and improving the value of Community, one of our team members also re-read and typed up notes from Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum” to include within the Community content. Pictures below show some of this work.

Began Reviewing the Values of Community and Sustainability – Click for True Community Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 35th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the auto suggestion for the names when assigning badges. This function was completed so that we can see a dropdown list including all the names of “ACTIVE” users when filling in name forms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Auto Suggestion for the Names When Assigning Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team completed the default password change and the option for the administrator to reset the password of a user inside the user profile. Upon clicking the Update Password button a popup shall open up which asks for a new password and confirms it, clicking “Reset Password” will update the password of that particular user. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 24th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor formatted some of the notes on her research by adding definitions to the key terms of what is most important to understanding the goals of this research project. She also began adding to a FAQ section. Furthermore, she made edits to her previous work by elaborating on how to become a self-insured employer as well as gave an overview of the process used in choosing plans as well as the selection criteria. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on getting the emails successfully sent for Weekly Summaries and infringements. Chris helped fill in new member Vy Dao on what was completed as far as Unit Testing for the different components and his process for doing Pull Requests. Chris also took a look at having Admins be able to click the red/green button on the leaderboard and see a different users dashboard, something that may require a couple of weeks to implement across all of the dashboard components. Then he fixed a color issue for the top of the dashboard. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he finished the X-hours-in-a-week badge group. He also organized the x-hours streak master files. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Finished the X-hours-in-a-week Badge Group and Organized the X-hours Streak Master Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert finished the five badges for the Highest Good Society. Badges 100, 200, 400 600 and 10,000. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Finished the Five Badges for the Highest Good Society – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy spent a lot of time reading all of the documentation from the on-boarding orientation. After that he reviewed all of the different unit-testing files that we already have on our Github repo. He also discusses with Chris about how to work on Unit-testings and PRs reviews. He did review of 2 Pull Requests this week, making some changes to a few files for one of the Pull Requests. After the newest merge he found, for some reason, the yarn test coverage was not working anymore. He believed this happens because some of the unit-testing files are too old and caused a JavaScript out of memory error. He then investigated all of the old unit-testing files, especially under the UserManagement folder such as: NewUserPopup.test.js and USerProfileModal.test.js. Pictures below are related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software.This week Yueru began development of the initial reporting filter page by completing project, person, and team tables. Each project, person and team table can render the options dynamically in real time. All three categories have 3 filter options available: active, inactive, and all. For projects, users have more filter options like data priority level etc. Showing all the options in table layout makes it easier for people to view all the options compared with the dropdown list used in the Ember/current app version. Pictures below are related to this work.

Joined the Highest Good Network Team and Began Development of the Initial Reporting Filter Page – Click for Page

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