Student newspaper of Illinois Institute of Technology since 1928 IPRO 338: Retrofitting Crown Hall By Hollie Lohman TECHNEWS WRITER The Interprofessional Project course (IPRO) at HT is a teamebased learning envi ronment in which students from various con, centrations and disciplines work together to solve realeworld problems IPRO 338, spone sored by the Electrical Contractors Associa tion of City of Chicago and Operation Green Jobs, is tasked with participating in the NECA Green Energy Challenge For the NECA Green Energy Challenge, the IPRO team was challenged to identify a facility on campus that is in need of energy efficiency improvements IPRO 338 chose to consider Crown Hall for analysis, as it is considered the most historie cally significant building on campus, as well as the most energy inefficient T he team then conducted an energy audit of the building’s power and lighting sys tems and a preliminary design of an energy retrofit for power and lighting systems Addi tionally, they designed a new solar PV energy generation system for the facility Crown Hall was built between 1950 and 1956, during Mies van der Rohe’s tenure as director of Illinois Institute of Technology’s department of architecture The modernistyle steel and glass building is regarded as one of the most architecturally significant buildings of the 20th century modernist movementl Due to the limited technology available in the 1950s, Crown Hall does not meet the current minimum standards set by the American So, ciety of Heating, Refrigerating, and AireCone ditioning Engineers IPRO 338 sought to perform an analysis on possible smart technologies that could be implemented in the building The next step was to eliminate those technologies that would be considered aesthetically unace ceptable due to the historical significance of Crown Halli Upon elimination of those technolo gies, the team performed an economic analysis to determine the energy savings and payback timeframe for each possible implementation or combination of implementations The fol, lowing categories were considered for Crown technewsiit.com OPINION 2 Campus 3-! AErE 8 The Slipstick 9 Sports 10-11 Hall renovation analysis: lighting, building envelope renovation, geothermal technology, and photovoltaic technology Based on research conducted by the team, lighting retrofits and geothermal technology were the two most viable options to consider The lighting retrofit would pay for itself after 14 months and the geothermal installation would pay for itself after 15 years After the pay back dates, these two technolo gies combined could generate over $100,000 per year in energy savings For more information, or to request the full report, visit http://wwwfacebookcom/ pages/Chicago,HawkseRetrofittingeCrown, Hall/3482772185239611 Image courtesy ofmimoaedu Kelly Lohr Congratulations!: SGA Election Results Emmanuel Klu Dor Karter Soonen Ahua Rani Shah Matthew Otten