Developments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) have enabled accelerationof new technology into the marketplace and can revolutionize the way products are designed and built. In January 2015,ORNL demonstrated how additive manufacturing can be used to drive rapid innovation in vehicles and has now applied BAAMin building envelopes. In partnership with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM), an innovative building design was developedto incorporate low-cost vacuum-insulated panels into a three-dimensional (3-D) printed 20 × 13 × 10 ft structure. These panelsuse a new vacuum insulation technology, called modified atmosphere insulation (MAI), which has been shown to achieve the sameperformance but at significantly reduced cost than traditional vacuum insulation. The radically new approach to integrating newtechnologies such as vacuum panels into building enclosure design and final assembly is described in this paper. This paper alsodetails the design process and the final 3-D printed design.
Citation: Thermal Performance of Exterior Envelopes of Whole Buildings XIII, Conference Papers
Product Details
- Published:
- 2016
- Number of Pages:
- 8
- Units of Measure:
- Dual
- File Size:
- 1 file , 9.4 MB
- Product Code(s):
- D-BldgConf16-56
