Sustainable Small House [SSH]
A disruptive senior housing alternative to conventional senior habitation featuring renewable energy and responsive medical monitoring.
The Passive Solar Research Group's "Sustainable Small House" research project, supported by a grant of $150,000 from The Nebraska Environmental Trust, is to demonstrate a renewable energy powered and medical monitoring residential alternative to the nursing home/retirement community model. Assisted Living Units (ALUs) or small homes represents a potentially disruptive technological development for the 75 million members of the baby boomer generation which preserves family savings and provides a quality of life choice for aging parents to live in closer proximity to their families.
Research Project Lead
Bing Chen, PhD
Research Project Teams
- Construction: Brandon Kreiling, John Bonsell
- Power/Electrical: Moe Alahmad, Bing Chen
- Environmental/Sustainability: George Hunt, Patrick Wheeler and adviser (Doug Williams)
- IT/Computer Simulations: Steve Eggerling, Bing Chen
- Medical/Security: Andrew Harms, Kuan Zhang, Eric Psota, Julie Boron
- Renewable Energy: Bing Chen, Moe Alahmad
- Interior Environment: Josephine Lau, Dale Tiller, Iason Konstantzos, Julie Boron
Research Project External Advisers
- Environmental/Sustainability: Doug Williams
- Renewable Energy: Richard Bourne, NREL
For More Information
Contact Bing Chen (Project Lead) bchen1@unl.edu or Ronda Wiebe (Administrative Technician) ronda.wiebe@unl.edu / 402-554-2288 for information about this project.
Presentations
- April 18, 2018 - Bing Chen, PhD makes a presentation for the Nebraskans for Solar group at the UNO Community Engagement Center (CEC). Presentation PDF (6.01 MB)
- April 13, 2018 - Bing Chen, PhD speaks on biomimicry panel discussion about SHOP project at UNO's Bio Innovation Summit. Presentation PDF (2.43 MB)