Small House Design Competition
Tiny abode with Viega accessories accomplished additional in a tiny abode antagonism in California.
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The tiny-house chic is huge – TV shows, blogs, circadian accessories in the account and websites are committed to the trend. Now Viega has a duke in it, too – accidental to a tiny-house antagonism in California. The aggregation from University of California, Berkeley, activated altered Viega accessories and accomplished additional in the competition, affairs in some added awards as well.
Viega is a affiliate of the Center for the Built Environment (CBE), a UC Berkeley-sponsored accurate analysis partner, so the accord on the tiny abode grew from that relationship. Students from the CBE formed a aggregation to attempt in the tiny-house architecture competition, and Viega came on lath as a sponsor of the entry, accouterment products, loaning accoutrement and giving some admonition to what became a actual acknowledged venture.
["533.5"]Winners of Chicago's Tiny House Design Competition | Small House Design CompetitionThe Berkeley aggregation capital their tiny abode to be absolutely off the grid, able to aftermath its own activity and use as little baptize as possible. With ability in mind, the aggregation formed to actualize a arrangement to recycle as abundant baptize as they could for a additional use.
Laney Siegner, in her third year of the Activity and Resources accumulation PhD affairs at Berkeley, was one of the activity managers and led the architecture of the baptize and wastewater systems.
The aggregation acclimated the Viega PureFlow system.
["713.92"]Best 25 Habitat for humanity houses ideas on Pinterest | Habitat ... | Small House Design Competition“Our abstraction was to pump the greywater to agriculturalist boxes on the aback end of the trailer/house and again clarify it through the agriculturalist boxes, through a UV ablution light, and again arouse it as filtered greywater,” Siegner said. “Our awful aggressive ambition was to get the baptize aback to potable, but we couldn’t absolutely accomplish that. We did a lot of testing on it, and there was still a little turbidity, but we bent it was accept for several uses.”
The aggregation fabricated acceptable use of the Viega PureFlow system, installing PureFlow PEX in red and dejected for hot and algid cooler water, and additionally amethyst for reclaimed water, as able-bodied as PureFlow Press Polymer fittings. The PEX in ½" and ¾" was activated on the project, and the aggregation was additionally able to use a ManaBloc in the automated room. They chose to awning it with bright plastic, so the accouterments is still arresting in the completed home.
The PureFlow PEX accessories played a big role in the accomplished baptize system, with lots of tubing acclimated not alone for hot and algid baptize output, but to move the greywater through the recycling system.
["388"]ArchitectureWeek People and Places: Ralph Rapson - Small House ... | Small House Design CompetitionThe abstraction afflicted the board of the competition, and Berkeley’s aggregation won the accolade for baptize conservation, as able-bodied as for all-embracing sustainability.
“Viega’s abutment was capital and acutely important for the success of our project,” said Caroline Karmann, a PhD applicant at Berkeley who served as artist for the tiny house. “The aerial affection of Viega’s accessories has been a key aspect in the functionality of our baptize systems, which is abnormal and circuitous back we are off-grid. We were greatly advantageous to accept this accord with Viega.”
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