Modeling a One Planet Living Community

A possibility for tying BIMstorm San Diego into the larger global sustainable development effort might be to model, at least East Village, as a One Planet Living community similar to BedZED in England as well as Sonoma Mountain Village here in Northern California.

Modeling a Smart MicroGrid

In preparation for potentially modeling "building integrated power" and/or a "smart microgrid" in East Village and/or Barrio Logan, here are some resources to guide our thinking and planning.

- The Galvin Electricity Initiative's 2-page overview of their smart microgrid concept, an online link to their new book "Perfect Power", and a webpage listing studies and reports on value models, etc.

- Exel Energy's whitepaper on their SmartGrid City concept and a webpage with links and info on their Smart House strategy and more in the nation's first large-scale community test in Boulder, CO.

- An article on microgrids from Lawrence Berkeley Labs with a link to the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS).

- Links to V2Green, a part of Gridpoint, who are in trials with several utilities using their hardware and software solutions for testing electric vehicle charging stations for tie-in with the smart grid.

- Smart Grid News and a webpage on federal ARRA smartgrid stimulus spending information.

- SDGE's Smart Meter initiative.

- And finally, a link to the May 19-20 "Revolutionizing the Smart Grid" conference being held right here in San Diego which may be a great opportunity for networking and gathering more nuggets of info.

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San Diego Bimstorm SlideShow

Here is a brief slideshow intro showing our preparations for BIMstorm San Diego.

San Diego Bimstorm

Maps

Maps of East Village and Barrio Logan from Phil:

Downtown Community Plan Updates

This site has a lot of interesting info. Note the list of draft Community Plans (PDFs)

http://www.ccdc.com/planupdate/#

For example, this PDF has a breakdown of info by Neighborhoods and Districts. (see pg 19, 20 for plans of East Villages urban strategies)

Interactive Projects Map

Take a look at this Interactive Map. It shows locations and descriptions of Residential, Commercial and Public Development activities.

RSS Feeds

Kimon or Yong,

I'm totally with you re. moving away from the email.

Is it possible to get an rss or other feed from this blog? If I missed the link I apologize for making more work, but I couldn't get Google Reader to recognize a feed.

I seem to remember some restriction due to the 'non-public' nature of the blog last time. One of the hold backs on using a blog to replace email is that you don't know when something has been posted if you cannot follow the feeds.

Other 'locked down' blogs have password protected feeds. Is such possible with Blogger?

Finith

Data to Import to BIMStorm

To start up a BIMStorm, we need to have background data and input from participants:

Inputs to BIMStorm:
Can be imported directly into OPS:

• Excel Program of building areas
• Google Earth KML files of property lines
• Google Earth KML files of other property features, utilities etc.
• Any native BIM files, Revit, Archicad, etc.
• IFC files of BIM
• Google Map, sketches can be imported to OPS:
• We can use Google Map to sketch out study areas and input ideas directly on the map.
• Here is a starter Map

Can be attached or converted for import to OPS:

• GIS ESRI Shape files can be converted to KML, but we would prefer if the KML files were available.
• Sketches, JPEGS, PDFs are also ok, we can import them in as backgrounds
• Autocad DWG files do not import directly, but could be used to build up relevant data to import to OPS, for example through Revit.
• Photographs of site

Let's keep this very important information organized. Mike...

Phil and All,

I haven't reviewed this link, but the stimulus money now flowing to cities should be a prime target for a BIMstorm San Diego funding proposal right alongside the one we're shortly gonna do to SDGE's Chip Fox and his utililty energy efficiency funds.

Chuck

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Grubb <DavidGrubb@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 2009/3/31
Subject: [SSDF] Energy Efficiency Block Grants
To: SSDF <ssdf@lists.sustainsandiego.org>

California allocations by city attached.

For information about the grants, see:

http://www.eecbg.energy..gov/default.html

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