This week the core team completed 24 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 Within the Beta Version of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

The core team also created a new Subscribe page, setup the confirmation pages and messages, and all the other Mailchip custom details.

Created a New Subscribe Page and All the Other Mailchip Custom Details – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 30th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris modified the projects page to allow for categories to be added to projects for Badge assignment and created a link to the future inventory management page on a per-project basis. He also worked on getting the auto-assign code working for most badge types but still needs to do some testing on that front before moving to beta. Finally, Chris helped OJ build out the API’s for inventory management. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 21st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru mainly worked on making filters have more than one option in the same filter list on the person reporting page. Now the users can select both food and housing in classification filters. She also added an arrow sign on the collapse button. Yueru additionally changed the assignment filter from dropdown list to radio button since only two options are available for assignment filter. She also modified the UI part on the selected filters options part to make it easier for users to see the options they chose. The pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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

This week the core team worked on more updates we realized were needed for the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page. This included creating updated imagery and trying different strategies to reduce the count of the sheets needed for the loft floor from 5 to 4 by rearranging how they are placed and simulating where to make the cuts.

Worked on More Updates Needed for the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering Page – Click for Page

The core team also continued working with the latest version of the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. We provided detailed explanations with supported images for suggested updates in the electrical section and the wall design. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working With the Latest Version of the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions Document – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #224 of Dean’s work and the focus was fixing an issue with the lamp shade sticking as transparent and trying to get the light coming from the lamp to look realistic. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 49th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began transferring information from the maximum roof size calculations along with added elaboration and narrating in the Net-Zero Bathroom Tutorial/Instructions. He began by updating the introductory narrative of the maximum roof size along with the addition of design choices made. Three sections were made covering the maximum roof size without supports, the maximum roof size with supports, and the maximum roof size when snow load is accounted for. Each section had an introduction stating the final results and explaining the general approach to the solution. Variables and assumptions were added to the maximum roof size without and with support columns sections. The assumptions were stated to clarify what steps were taken for the calculations. Finally the calculations and graphs were added along with paragraphs elaborating the steps, values, and graphs. The same elaboration will be added to the snow load section and the added sections will be proofread. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 43rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued working through the different changes in wood pieces and sizes. The addition of the 2 vertical support beams in wall frame continues to be a feature that needs to be updated in all views. Updating pages of the clothing and storage area and finding the cutting lumber instructions need to be planned out. Some page features are in need of updating text sizes and there are a few questions of which updates to make to overall structure. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working Through the Different Changes in Wood Pieces and Sizes – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson focused on reworking the solar incentive research and best solar hardware research. He fixed every comment request, and finished reworking both research documents. He also added Jae’s request to the solar incentive research conclusion. Jeson additionally contacted Garkane and Rocky Mountain Power engineers to confirm their program and rates, and other options they offer. An appointment was made with Garkane engineer on Jun 29th, 9am LA time. After finishing the reworking, he looked into some diesel generators and recorded their data. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Focused on Reworking the Solar Incentive Research and Best Solar Hardware Research – Click for Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 13th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela worked on the Water Catchment section for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking lot Report. She read through the current material within the Water Catchment section and analyzed which portions were necessary. Daniela edited and rewrote sections, elaborating on some concepts and removing others. In order to incorporate information regarding porous pavements and the grey water processing pond into the water catchment section, she also researched information concerning the two. She primarily focused her research towards the grey water processing pond due to previous work on porous pavements. Daniela then wrote and edited new sections. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Water Catchment Section for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report – Click for Page

Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) also completed her 5th week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This Week Katherine made some corrections on the cost section based on more research and peer feedback. Shed also started researching on steps and procedures to start a new project with Garkane, and wrote the related section in the report. Pictures below are related to this work.

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

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics. This week Frank worked on the heat loads needed for the Tropical Atrium on the coldest day of the year. He also researched about selection of HVAC systems to determine which heater is best fitted for the Tropical Atrium by reading the ASHRAE Handbook 2016 HVAC Systems and Equipment. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics – Click for Page

Prabhath Ekanayake (Electrical Engineering Assistant) completed his 4th week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Prabhath completed the research and writing for the section covering subsidies programs. Below are some images related to this work.

Completed the Research and Writing for the Section Covering Subsidies Programs – Click for Solar Energy Page

Last but not least, Wanda Field (Research and Review Assistant) completed her 3rd week helping with research and reports review and additional research for the Duplicable City Center and Highest Good Housing components. This week, Wanda continued working on calculating the power consumption of the Straw Bale Village. She made a list of all the items that would consume power by reading through the cost analysis provided on the Straw Bale Village information page. This table for the village is based on and in the same format as the power consumption table that has been completed by her and the core team for the Earthbag Village. Wanda was able to complete the research for about a third of the items in the list. See below for some pictures related to this.

Continued Working on Calculating the Power Consumption of the Straw Bale Village – Click for Page

This week the core team reviewed, edited, and provided comments of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial through page 64. This included more responses beginning with Flexible Pavement Materials on page 5 through page 60 that covers Streetscape Elements by Street Type. Then a detailed review of the text of Considerations for Sidewalk Width Determining on pages 60 through 64.

Edited the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 24th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian provided the energy modeling documents and summary of inputs as references to be posted on the One Community website. He also provided the service hot water design guidelines with ASHRAE 90.1 design requirements. Ian additionally started the energy modeling documentation updates covering the LEED whole building simulation prerequisites and then the optimization requirements as per the LEED reference manual. Please see below updated progress photos for reference.

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

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 18th 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. David began the week with assigning action items from the progress google doc he had created. He also reviewed and commented on all comments made from the core team and Nicholas who have been reviewing the roadways, walkways, and landscaping document. David made some changes and additions and worked on the remaining cross sections for the walkway. 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

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on load calculations, collecting all the references for 2×12 seasoned fir, red cedar, yellow pine, or spruce, bending strengths, snow loading, full-time loading, work to maximum load, Modulus of elasticity, etc. and adding all of these to the report document. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 15th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis collected the team’s feedback, discussed the suggestions with the team and made the necessary adjustments to have it presentable for the website. Luis also narrowed down his selection of the pump using the team’s latest plumbing design. This will allow the parts selection of the system to be wrapping up in the next week. He has also been tasked with designing the control system for the unit through code and creating a user guide for his system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Helping With Research Related to the City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week he worked on the final edits to the hot tub design report and justification of all the recommendations, designs and systems. He delved deeper into understanding the differences of Shotcrete and Gunite as foundation materials, Eco-friendly insulation methods for the hot tub, and documenting all of this. Pictures below relate to this work from last week.

Worked on the Final Edits to the Hot Tub Design Report – Click for City Center Eco-spa Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 9th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on the research and writing of a new section, which was the native plants for landscaping section. She also added the pictures for illustration so the readers can have a better understanding about these plants. Carol continued to work on the sump pump construction details on AutoCAD and added more details in the system as recommended by David. In addition, she continued to work on the Greywater in Developing Countries notes. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Worked on the Research and Writing of the Native Plants for Landscaping Section – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Neel Shanbhag (Control Systems Electrical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week Neel continued working on the cut sheets of kitchen equipment. He also matched the model number with the ones on the spreadsheet. And he found working links for the ones that were broken and the various models for the ones that were not mentioned before. 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 2nd week helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week, John cleaned up the base plan backgrounds of the project scope and created xref files for each of the floors. This method of having base plan xref files (and in the future RCP, furniture plans, power/data plans, etc) will help ensure a more organized way of creating drawings. In addition, a new title block xref was created, as well, in order to have one TB file to go back to whenever issuance information changes. Pictures below show some of this work.

This week the core team completed 22 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.

Tested and Identified Bugs Within the Beta Version of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 45th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team worked on the bug fixes mainly in the time entry, weekly summary report, and user profile areas. The pull request has been raised for the same. They also upgraded the react script version to the latest and ignored the lint error for the time being, to run it locally. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on the Bug Fixes Mainly in the Time Entry, Weekly Summary Report, and User Profile Areas – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru mainly worked on doing code cleaning and refactoring for reporting feature deployment. Like the project reporting page, for the people reports page, she also applied the filter name changes, added ‘filter off’ in each filter option and alphabetized the rest, and made the resources column wider. She added back the collapse button and showed the first resource name in the resource column. When a user clicks the collapse button, they now see all the resources. The pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Doing Code Cleaning and Refactoring for Reporting Feature Deployment – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 17th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. Robert completed the 100 volunteer hours in Highest Good Stewardship Badge and prepared the Highest Good Food, Economics, Society and Energy Badges for the Highest good Software.

Continued Helping With the New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Mike Suarez (Software Developer) also completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Mike wrapped up the new timer implementation. He fixed race conditions by saving unread only after at least 1 minute passed. Before he did this, every read was causing a save and was breaking Pause and Stop. He started fetching the timer when the app opens too. This has as consequence that a new tab opens with the timer running up already if the other tabs were running. This improved the synchronization between multiple tabs open as well. The pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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 made some additions to the “comparing plastic recycling options” table, made more changes in the google doc to get more consistent formatting, and transferred more sections including embedded videos to the live web page, most of them from the Precious Plastics section. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Edits to the Best Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options – Click for Page

The core team additionally continued double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. We double checked the time-of-day draws for everything, did additional research on water heaters and pumps, and wrapped up the energy work for this village. We then started organizing what will be needed to complete this same process for the Straw Bale Village. See below for related pictures.

Continued Double Checking the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 48th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched information on the effect snow loads have on metal roofing. The research helped gather the values of the loads needed to help determine the maximum size of the Net-Zero Bathroom’s exterior roof with and without external support columns. The depth of the snow was set at 30in and a density of 0.0041lb/in², with these values he calculated the weight at various roof sizes depending on the number of tangent support beams. A graph and trendline was generated from these calculations and was added to the initial roof weight function. Based on the weight limit of the walls and the weight of the snow, the exterior roof would need external support in order to withstand the weight of snow in a snowy climate. The weight function including the weight of snow was added to the calculations for the maximum roof size with external columns. The centroid of the radial beam was constrained to be 75% closer to the external support than the centroid of the wall. With this parameter Jose Luis calculated an increase in roof area of 40%. With the calculations complete, he will add the findings to the Net-Zero Bathroom instruction/tutorial and elaborate for simplification. The pictures below show some of this work.

Researched Information on the Effect Snow Loads Have on Metal Roofing – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 42nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey completed the comments received for the wall section. She worked on getting the correct boards and colors in each drawing and also tried to regulate many of the line weights and colors used throughout. All of this is to make the look more consistent overall so it will be easier to understand. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 21st week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente has continued the supervision of the ongoing energy tasks and documents, resolving questions, making contributions and suggesting conclusions. After the data collection by Jeson on the solar charges and credits comparison (see vertical bar graph) the best economic balance is expected for Rocky Mountain Power. This is the conclusion provided that the energy supplied to the grid is equal or higher than the energy taken from the grid (expected energy balance scenario). Vicente then focused on the grid tie tutorial and short comments on the hot tub design and the grid tie tutorial. He also updated the Gann diagram for the timeline follow-up and confirmed the high energy needs of the electric car chargers as part of the energy analysis.

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

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson focused on completing the solar incentive research report. He quoted the program detailed in the report, fixed the citation issues, and rewrote some of the company solar rate descriptions. Jeson also added descriptions on the document and website links. He then numbered all the images and converted all solar incentive research resources into pdf files and added them to the dropbox folder. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Focused on Completing the Solar Incentive Research Report – Click for Solar Energy Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 12th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This report requires various sections on pavement types such as those previously worked on for decomposed granite and porous asphalt. The new section focuses on porous concrete. Throughout this week Daniela researched and collected information regarding the design and functionality of porous concrete. She then organized the information to better relay the research to the audience. Additionally Daniela wrote paragraphs on the structural design, maintenance, advantages, disadvantages and application of this pavement. She researched for more properties concerning porous concrete in order to ensure that the information provided properly summarizes the pavement type. Lastly, Daniela reviewed the section and edited the material. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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

Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) also completed her 4th week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Katherine did research on transmission line cost on the grid-tie system. The costs vary largely depending on power voltage, design conditions, and land and environment requirements. Data was studied and analyzed in the report. Katherine also reviewed the whole report and wrote the introduction section. Pictures below are related to this work.

Did Research on Transmission Line Cost on the Grid-tie System – Click for Solar Energy Page

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics. This week Frank worked on refining the areas on the atrium and researching on the thermal properties of the materials composing the tropical atrium. He also researched on the conditions necessary for the plants and trees to grow. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics – Click for Page

Prabhath Ekanayake (Electrical Engineering Assistant) completed his 3rd week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week he focused on completing research, writing the report section “what to expect from the county”, and sending emails to energy departments to gather information for the report. 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 3rd week helping with review of Highest Good Housing research and related tasks. Nicholas dedicated this week’s work to primarily editing research documents, starting with the Solar Incentive Rate Research, Best Solar Hardware Research Report, and City Center Hot Tub Design. In addition to this, Nicholas wrote a quick guide to help future researchers and document preparers, which he put up for use on Saturday. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

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

Last but not least, Wanda Field (Research and Review Assistant) completed her 2nd week helping with research and reports review and additional research for the Duplicable City Center and Highest Good Housing components. This week, Wanda focused on power consumptions of the Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village. She finalized her calculations and findings on the best water heating system for the Earthbag Village communal eco-showers, and came to the conclusion that tank water heaters will be the most power efficient option. She then started the overall power consumption table for the Straw Bale Village. Finally, Wanda edited and reviewed a section of the Grid-Tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorials documents and revisited the comments she left on the documents she reviewed last week. See below for some pictures related to this.

Focused on Power Consumptions of the Earthbag Village and Straw Bale Village – Click for Earthbag Village

This week the core team completed 24 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.

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 45th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team worked on the bug fixes and security vulnerability scan and fix for npm packages. The bug reported in beta testing for assigning projects and teams has been fixed and a pull request is raised for the same along with the package version changes. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on the Bug Fixes and Security Vulnerability Scan and Fix for Npm Packages – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 28th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the auto blue square function for missing submitting a summary because there was a problem where someone submitted a weekly summary and didn’t get an email but they got an infringement. Chris fixed this by changing the window for submission and auto-email sending so it was only 1 minute apart instead of 5. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on the Auto Blue Square Function for Missing Submitting a Summary – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru made some modifications based on feedback from last week. She made the resources column wider and showed only one user in the button. Yueru also changed the filter name to”Filter Off” and made the “Filter Off”” the first option and alphabetized all the rest of the options. She also modified and capitalized the table columns to use Resources, Class, Start Date, End Date, etc. The pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Mike Suarez (Software Developer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Mike worked on fixing the timer. He added a field to the Timer collection in the db: started, lastAccess so start get’s set upon Start and Pause. This is used to calculate the time passed instead of counting seconds in the app. LastAccess is used to timeout the user. Every 1 minute the app checks the time passed and automatically the last access gets refreshed. If the app gets closed without stopping or pausing and more than 5 mins passes, the next time the timer starts, it gets picked from the Last Access value. The pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Fixing the Timer for Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

This week the core team created a plan for compression testing aircrete and stabilized earth. These tests will make creating permitted structures for the Earthbag Village construction easier. We’re planning 275 tests covering 10 different mixes. The pictures below show some of the other planned details.

Created a Plan for Compression Testing Aircrete and Stabilized Earth – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also continued edits and additions to the “Best Small and Large-scale Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options ” article. This week we made additions to the “comparing plastic recycling options” table, identified new areas we’d like to research, did some corrections to the placement of paragraphs in the google doc, transferred some sections, and embedded videos to the live page. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Edits to the Best Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options – Click for Page

The core team additionally continued double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. We brought on 2 volunteers to assist and continued to add calculation details to the energy needs tab, so others can update easily if necessary in the future. We worked out water demand and greywater production and instantaneous flow rates for pump sizing and power draw. See below for related pictures.

Continued Double Checking the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 46th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis reviewed and completed his calculations and graphs. While reviewing his work he updated the dimensional properties of the calculations. Values such as the surface area of the model’s roof and the density of galvalume were updated to the correct values. With these corrections the graphs and trend lines relating weight and the number of support beams were updated. The total weight and the number of tangential supports were calculated by summing up the trendline functions and constraining the weight to a maximum value of 648lb and the number of supports being a whole number. The maximum number of support was calculated to be 12 and a weight of 583.5 lb. The maximum weight was divided by the current model’s weight equaling a scaling factor of 1.31 or a 31% increase in surface area. The calculations for the maximum roof scaling factor with external supports was updated as well. The solution to the maximum scaling factor with supports uses the total weight of the roof as a function of radial beam length derived from the calculations done when there are no external supports. With the updated calculations, the maximum scaling factor with external supports was 4.01 or a 400% increase of surface area. The large increase was due to the low density of galvalume (3.75 gms/cm3) when compared to conventional galvanized steel (7.14 gms/cm3) which was being used in the previous calculations. The pictures below show some of this work.

Reviewed and Completed Calculations and Graphs – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 41st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy focused on working through the feedback comments from the core team, one by one. Overall the instructions have been greatly improved. She has been able to make adjustments to several different areas because when revisiting the areas she found small details that were missed or incorrect. The page keys and wood numbers have caused the most problems. It seems there are a lot of adjustments to wood sizes and positions. We want to make sure we represent all the components accurately and the procurement list will have to get longer and more stylized. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson grouped the companies with less solar incentive information in the solar incentive comparison table, added more guidance and notes to the table, and color coded the table for easier visual rating. He also reviewed the best solar hardware inverter sections, changed and corrected hardware descriptions, and added inverted images to the spreadsheet comparison table and the report. He then added the image numbering and names/captions. For the solar inventive report, Jeson fixed the title capitalization format, and finished the conclusion requested. He then focused on rewriting the solar hardware descriptions and citation issue, and is halfway done with the solar hardware report. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued With Research Related to the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 11th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started out the week by returning back to the Earthbag Village street design that needed to be offset to 20 feet. Initially there was a problem with the shape of the street when offsetting the outer ring. A solution was found and Daniela made edits through AutoCAD so that the street now measures 20 feet. Daniela also continued watching and annotating the videos regarding the grey and black water systems. Once completed, she cleaned up these notes so that others could read and understand the material without referring back to the videos. Additionally, Daniela added images that would visually aid others referring to the work. Lastly, in order to ensure better understanding of a paragraph, she created two tables for the Aquapini and Walipini project. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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

Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Katherine did research on the general cost for building a solar farm grid-tie system. She researched the per-mile cost on different power needs and overhead and underground options. Katherine read reports and articles, wrote the costs section, and corrected some figures and makes them more clear. Pictures below are related to this work.

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

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics. This week Frank worked in creating a report on the water heater selected for the eco showers. He read through information regarding the heating losses and gains produced inside the system to start on the design of an auxiliary heating system for the atrium. Dimensions on the atrium were determined using the Sketchup program and they will be used to find the loads needed in the HVAC system. The pictures below relate to this work.

Worked in Creating a Report on the Water Heater Selected for the Eco Showers – Click for Earthbag Village

Prabhath Ekanayake (Electrical Engineering Assistant) completed his 2nd week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Prabhath continued development of the grid tie energy infrastructure tutorial by adding permitting fees for the step-by-step construction section, writing the overview, and researching and emailing a few energy companies for relevant information. Below are some images related to this work.

Continued Development of the Grid Tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial – Click for Solar Energy Page

Last but not least, Nicholas K. de León (Project Management Adviser) completed his 2nd week helping with review of Highest Good Housing research and related tasks. This week, Nicholas finalized the cylinder mold order, obtaining a competitive price lower than other sellers previously contacted. In addition to this, Nicholas worked on editing research documents and providing feedback for the solar team. This included, most importantly, the need to cite properly, something that will need attention before these documents are ready to be published to One Community’s website. In aiming to reduce the time spent on backtracking research citations and suggesting edits that will delay publication, Nicholas also worked on a template for writing, one that can be used to make future documents more uniform as well as provide suggestions for citations from the outset. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

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

This week the core team completed 27 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.

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 44th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team continued working on the bug fixes. It is now possible to enter hours up to 40 and minutes up to 59 only. Phone number formatting was added too, including international numbers in the add new profile screen and the edit profile screens. The watermark for total committed hours was also corrected. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Bug Fixes for the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 30th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #497, #498, #499, #500, and #501. You can see all these new images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #497, #498, #499, #500, and #501 – Click for Most Recent Blog

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 27th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris completed Parts 1 and 2 of the proposal for the badges and materials tracking components. You can see some of his proposal below.

Completed Parts 1 and 2 of the Proposal for the Badges and Materials Tracking Components – Click for Highest Good Network

Mike Suarez (Software Developer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Mike started the week fixing CircleCI. We were pointing to the latest nodejs docker image to run our project and they (CircleCI) switched the latest from node 14 to 16. Since our project requires node 14 we were not able to build. The image set was cimg/node:14.17.0. Then Mike started tackling different issues from the bug report. He fixed the behavior of blue squares, allowing them to autosave the changes. He also fixed the Total Effort calculation which included the Intangible Effort. And he found the problem with the Timer not accounting for the right amount of time. This was an implementation problem in the feature for which he proposed a solution and is looking forward to implementing it next week. The pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

This week the core team completed our final review and feedback round on the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc, followed by a collaborative phone call to clarify our final outstanding concerns. The same team member then continued proofreading the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, going through page 18.

Continued Proofreading the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial – Click for Page

The core team also began final edits and additions to the “Best Small and Large-scale Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options” article. This is the process of integrating extensive new research and edits from Aidan, updating the spreadsheets and other graphics, and beginning the process of transferring them to the One Community site. The same team member also did some additional work double checking all the images were correct for the finished “Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page.

Began Final Edits to the Best Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Community Options – Click for Page

And the core team created a new list of requests covering up through page 39 of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book.

Created a New List of Requests of the Tree House Village Online Book – Click for Page

The core team additionally continued double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. We interviewed 2 volunteers to assist with this task and the same process that will be applied to the City Center, Straw Bale Village, Ultimate Classroom, and Aquapini and Walipini Structures next. We’d say we’re now 90% of the way done with the energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village. We added additional details for how we arrived at different numbers of units, added percent use, and worked with Frank to estimate energy use by potential HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, water heater for eco-showers, and some greywater pumps. We also added the time of day the power draw occurs from the different power demands. See below for related pictures. 

Continued Double Checking the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #223 of Dean’s work and the focus was placement of the 2nd quilt in the guest bedroom, adding lights, and beginning light effects testing/rendering. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 45th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the calculations for the maximum scaling factor of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof with the addition of an exterior support column. He completed the calculations by assuming the distributed load was uniform on the wall and made the max distance from the reaction force on the wall to the center of gravity to be 60% of the distance from the edge of the wall to the column. The weight of the roof was related to the radial beam length and the radial beam was related to the length of the external column. By substituting these relationships, the length of the exterior support column was calculated. The weight equation was then used to solve for the reaction force on the external column and set it equal to the equation of the critical load before buckling. This was used to solve for the maximum length of the external column and then used to solve for the length of the radial beam. With the equation used to calculate the area of a trapezoid, the surface area of the roof was calculated. The next step will be to review the calculations to look for any discrepancies and then add it to the Net-Zero Bathroom Tutorial/Instructions and add the spreadsheets. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 39th and final week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah finalized the development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation & Flooring tutorial. She changed diagrams to reflect the increased horizontal wing insulation of the domes, worked with other team members to discuss the future paths of the FFF and loft tutorials, and cleaned up the CAD files for the next team member who works on the dome and loft. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Finalized the Development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation & Flooring Tutorial – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 20th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This past week, Vicente continued the supervision of the ongoing energy tasks. For easy follow-up view he created the flow working diagram below which can be updated according to progress. He also updated the schedule plan and replied to the questions and comments related to the ongoing tasks.

Continued the Supervision of the Ongoing Energy Tasks – Click for Solar Energy Page

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, he added images to the types of solar harvesting cells, and the color coating onto the solar hardware spreadsheets for visual differentiation on how good or bad they are. Jeson also added more descriptions on how to choose from each type of hardware. He then focused on rewriting the solar incentive research document and constructing the solar incentive rate table. He will be doing the requested conclusion next week and the format and image numbering at the end. Jeson will then make all the webpage links into PDF and add them to the dropbox. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued With Research Related to the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Katherine researched the steps and cost for constructing the PV grid tie-system. She also researched local power company websites, and learned their utility distribution, contacted them for cost, and wrote the initial report on them. Additionally, Katherine learned how to use Google Earth and Google Maps to do measurements and measured the distance we’ll need to run cable to bring power to the property. Pictures below are related to this work. <

Researched the Steps and Cost for Constructing the PV Grid Tie-system – Click for Solar Energy Page

This week Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and began by helping with some needed research for the Earthbag Village energy specifics. He worked on learning more about the project and understanding the basic principles behind it. The analysis of pump power requirements was computed. A selection tool was used to determine the water heater used on the eco-shower, and the HVAC study was started for the Tropical Atrium. The pictures below relate to this work.

Joined the Team and Began by Helping With Research for the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics – Click for Page

Prabhath Ekanayake (Electrical Engineering Assistant) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. For his first week, Prabhath focused on completing grid connection details and research covering how to get started/where to start your research, and the step-by-step construction steps to expect. Below are some images related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Grid-tie Connection Details for Solar Microgrid Designs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Nicholas K. de León (Project Management Adviser) joined the team and completed his first week helping with review of Highest Good Housing research and related tasks. This week, Nicholas completed his onboarding process and began his first assignments, including researching the best providers for cylinder molds we’ll be ordering to do aircrete and stabilized earth compression testing. After researching and compiling information on sellers and the most competitive prices, he is close to being able to determine the most cost effective route for One Community. In addition to this, Nicholas familiarized himself with solar infrastructure research documents and began making edits/suggestions. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Joined the Team and Began Review of Highest Good Housing Research and Related Tasks – Click for Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 32nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia calculated hot water flow rate for the Social Dome, Kitchen and Living Dome. She also started looking for the new water heater we’re going to use. Pictures below are related to this work.

Calculated Hot Water Flow Rate for the Social Dome, Kitchen and Living Dome – Click for City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 22nd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian finished transferring all data of the operation schedule from the spreadsheet to the DesignBuilder energy simulation software. This spreadsheet contains a detailed operation schedule for occupancy, process load, artificial lighting, mechanical ventilation, heating demand and cooling demand. This operation schedule is important to accurately calculate the energy consumption of the building for the whole year and has a significant effect on the results of the calculation. This is all a requirement for the building to achieve a LEED certification. Below are some images related to this work.

Transferred All Data of the Operation Schedule to the Designbuilder Energy Simulation Software – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 15th 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 and his team focused on implementing corrections as needed to the Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorials per recommended/suggested comments from the multi-person review team. David also reviewed the comments and made changes as necessary and assigned comments to specific team members if he felt that they related to them. David also spent time finishing the AutoCAD Civil 3D training with Carol for the design of a roadway/corridor. He has worked with Carol to teach her how to create a surface from survey points, design a horizontal alignment, design a vertical alignment and profile, create a road assembly, and apply the assembly to the corridor. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implemented Corrections as Needed to the Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorials – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha revised the previous document and made some major changes as she analyzed the material with stainless steel according to updated design criteria. The stress resistance of stainless steel is very high, so we are considering it for our angle bracket and comparing it with aluminum using simulations. She eliminated the galvanized steel as there is cracking of the coating when we bend the plate. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes – Click for Duplicable City Center

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 13th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis began the plumbing design. His primary focus has been the pump selection and what will fit our needs perfectly. He did the necessary research to understand what is available on the market and now is determining the flow rates and pressures of the system to select the correct pump. Along with the plumbing, the installation of the foundation and piping schematic will also need to be designed to have a complete model with accurate calculations that reflect the model. Pictures below are related to this work.

Began the City Center Eco-spa Plumbing Design – Click for Pool and Spa Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 10th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. She primarily focused on two sections, Porous Asphalt and Decomposed Granite. Daniela researched, wrote and completed the last portions of the Porous Asphalt section. She then moved on to reorganizing the Decomposed Granite section. Once the concepts flowed better, Daniela added various paragraphs concerning the topics presented. Then this work was reviewed by a team member and Daniela edited the report based on the feedback provided. Lastly Daniela ensured the sections were clear and concise, in addition to making last edits to the formatting of the report. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. He finished the inlet water supply and air supply piping connecting it to the body of the hot tub and jet valves. Rushabh also started modeling the features of the heater and pump, and researched insulation materials and construction processes for custom hot tubs like ours. Pictures below relate to his work last week.

Continued Helping With the City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol did research and added details to the “Dense Graded HMA”, “Porous Asphalt”, “Decomposed Granite”, “Paving Stones”, “Equivalent Single Axle Loads”, “Lane Distribution Factor”, “Traffic Index”, “Life-Cycle Cost Analysis”, “Subgrade”, “Base” sections as requested through core team feedback. She also added other information to “Streetscape Elements by Street Types (Standard Elements, Case by Case Additions)”. Carol additionally worked on the Bikeway Design part and worked with David on Civil 3D for Roadway Design. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

This week the core team completed our 2nd-to-last review and feedback round on the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc. The focus was mainly on regarding strip placement of wing insulation. This tutorial is now about 99% complete behind-the-scenes. The same team member then proceeded proofreading Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, going through page 7 and posing questions for further clarification of the aggregate mix treatment for the surface asphalt layer.

Continued Finalizing the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Doc. – Click for Page

The core team additionally continued the final publishing of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page. We updated the page with all the updated images, transformed the updated tables into images, and addressed some other images that had to be edited on top of the standard resizing and optimization before publishing them on the web page. We also added the metadata on all the images. This page is done now except for the final read through and creating of a new header image.

Continued the Final Publishing of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering Page – Click to Visit

The core team additionally continued double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. We added more specifics for the electrical demands, working more on identifying all the energy consuming components within the village. We’d say this evaluation/estimation task is now about 80% complete.

Continued Double Checking the Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 44th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued his analysis of the maximum rain catchment area when an external support column is used. He continued his analysis and first determined a geometric relationship between the distance of the external column to the outer structure wall and the height of the column. This was feasible due to the slope of the roof being constant, making the height and length proportional. A constraint was then made by stating that the center of gravity or half the length of the radial beam would not surpass 80% of the distance from the origin to the column to avoid tipping. Jose Luis then made a free body diagram and equations of equilibrium to have a relationship between the distance between the center of gravity and the structure’s reaction force vs the reaction force at the column. The reaction force on the column was isolated by using the maximum distance parameter, the maximum weight the structure can withstand, and relating it to the column’s length to simplify the equation. The length of the radial beam can be calculated by using the chosen length of the column.With the length the reaction force can be verified by using the buckling equation and the equation derived from the spreadsheet relating weight to radial beam length. These findings will be added to another spreadsheet to calculate the maximum rain catchment area of the Net-Zero Bathroom’s exterior roof. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Analysis of the Maximum Rain Catchment Area When an External Support Column Is Used – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 40th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy focused on making changes to part w31a and w31b by changing the board and reworking the cutting map to fit those parts in. She added more cutting instructions for all boards in the wall section and the measurements for all boards split into two pieces. Stacey also updated the board color coding system and the procurement list based on these changes. The new added wood to the structure is making the structure more secure and sound. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 38th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She went through the FFF doc to resolve any outstanding comments and updated/added content for topics that needed further elaboration, such as how to calculate the width increase between the foundation and footer by using a trigonometric principle. Hannah also researched the compressive strength of aircrete in relation to its variable density. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Working on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 19th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This past week, Vicente focused on the supervision of Jeson and Luis’ tasks, reviewing draft reports, indicating suggestions to improve the texts and solving questions. He completed the revision of the solar hardware and solar rates reports. Vicente additionally updated the solar schedule plan to have a one year view, and started to supervise and review the work by Katherine, a new member of the team.

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

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson created and started developing the diesel generator spreadsheet. He determined the necessary data to be included in the spreadsheet and used the same format as the previous spreadsheets. Other than starting the diesel generator product research, he primarily focused on responding to the comments input from other reviewers. He added more information on sections that were too short and reconstructed the recycling section with more detail. Jeson also fixed some format errors and added appendix and resource sections with backup resource web page PDFs. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Created and Started Developing the Diesel Generator Spreadsheet – Click for Solar Energy Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) continued helping with 3D render work, completing his 4th week as a volunteer now helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he finished the final sky, plant, and people edits needed to complete the render shown below.

Finished the Final Sky, Plant, and People Edits of the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Renders – Click for Page

And Katherine Cao (Chemical Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the grid-tie connection details for our solar microgrid designs. This week Katherine reviewed the solar reports written by other One Community team members to learn about the work already done and the format desired. She then began the research on grid-tie systems, PV field connect-to-grid, etc. and started writing the report. Pictures below are related to this work.

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

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 31st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia calculated the hot water flow rate for the kitchen according to the Guidelines for Sizing Water Heaters, California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health. Her results showed a need for 2 working heaters of 268 gallons per hour each. This seems high for the kitchen and will need to be double checked. Pictures below are related to this work.

Calculated the Hot Water Flow Rate for the Kitchen – Click for Duplicable City Center

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 14th 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. David began the week by emailing action items for his team. The roadway, walkways, landscaping, and rigid and flexible pavement design is nearing completion; and so this week David was working on finishing remaining sections, reviewing formatting and comments, and making sure that the document is ready and prepared in the “End State” format that Jae is looking for. Because this document and project tutorial takes priority, the greywater processing pond research has been put on hold until it is complete. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways Development – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on different materials; Aluminum, Stainless Steel, and Galvanized Steel. Because of the cracking of the coating near the bend we cannot consider galvanized steel. She prepared the parts from scratch and analyzed them on Aluminum and steel and compared with Galvanized steel. Aluminum is less strong than stainless steel and so stainless steel has been chosen as the preferred material. The pictures below relate to this work.

Worked on Different Materials; Aluminum, Stainless Steel, and Galvanized Steel – Click for Duplicable City Center

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 11th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis made some design selections for the One Community City Center Hot Tub. With the heater selection finalized, the pump selection began. This meant scouring websites for recommendations and sizing to understand what our system required. The pump for the unit cannot exceed the performance of the heater, but must also provide adequate flow. The flow rate numbers are only an estimate for the plumbing requirements, but he will work on those in the near future. As of right now, the main task is to understand the power requirements of the system by finding potential compatible parts. Pictures below are related to this work.

Made Some Design Selections for the One Community City Center Hot Tub – Click for Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 9th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. As the team is wrapping up the report, Daniela edited the formatting for each section in order to ensure uniformity throughout its entirety. Once completed, Daniela then worked on a section regarding Porous Asphalt Design. Since this section was primarily composed of images containing condensed information, Daniela converted this content into paragraph form. Additionally, subsections were reorganized for better transitions and easier understanding. Final editing for this section will be completed in the upcoming week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Edited the Formatting for Each Section in Order to Ensure Uniformity – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. Rushabh proposed and designed an idea to incorporate the standard cover and thermal blanket with an option to open only a quarter of the spa area in case only one or two people are using the spa to save energy. He also worked along with Luis selecting the heater, searching for the sizing chart and a suitable model for the heater. Pictures below relate to his work last week.

Continued Helping With the City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page