MADISON – Imagine living in a house virtually free of heating, cooling, and electricity bills.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Jeffrey Christian will discuss the potential for such houses in Wisconsin during a free public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, January 25, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street.
His talk, "Zero Energy Houses: A Promising Grand Challenge for the U.S.," will describe research conducted over the last four years on five prototype houses at the Oak Ridge laboratory in Tennessee whose energy costs range from just 60 cents to one dollar a day.
Christian directs the laboratory's Buildings Technology Center, which studies zero-energy residential and commercial buildings; advanced appliances; moisture control in buildings, roofs, walls and foundations; cooling, heating and power-integrated systems; and whole-building design and performance. He has written more than 130 technical publications, primarily in the area of building energy efficiency.
Christian's talk is part of the Roy F. Weston Distinguished Global Sustainability Lecture Series at UW-Madison. Weston, an alumnus of the university, founded Weston Solutions, Inc., an international environmental and redevelopment firm.
The Weston lectures are sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (part of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies) and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW-Madison.
For more information, contact Carmela Diosana, (608) 265-0604.