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Saving energy a priority
By MICHAEL CANNATA
Reporter
Energy efficient designs could
save up to 75 percent of the energy
now being consumed, but Texas is
woefully lacking in such designs,
says a Texas A&M architecture pro
fessor.
Professor Raymond Reed says
some states recently have begun to
place energy efficient requirements
on new buildings, but Texas hasn’t
because there aren’t enough qual
ified designers.
Reed says a national survey found
only 5,000 architects out of mote
than 60,000 in the nation capable of
designing energy efficient buildings.
“There has been a period of about
30 to 40 years in which architecture
students have not been trained to
design with nature,” he says. “Dur
ing that time, buildings were primar
ily built for investment purposes and
they didn’t take into consideration
the climate in which the buildings
were built.”
Reed says that today many build
ings throughout the world look simi
lar, and, in some cases, it is impossi
ble to tell where you are judging by
building design. This loss of what he
calls “regional designing” has oc
curred only since World War IT He
says a prime example is the Holiday
Inn chain because all Holiday Inns
look so much alike. But building de
sign has begun to change.
“With the advent of the OPEC cri
sis, an increasing concern has been
placed on architects to design energy
efficient buildings,” Reed says. “In -
doing this we have had to re-leafn
many of the age-old concepts of de
signing with nature.”
Reed says current technology has
been combined with old design con
cepts and now architects are design
ing buildings that can burn 80 per
cent less energy than their
predecessors.
Buildings in Texas, Reed says, are
like big ovens because they generate
so much heat internally that heating
is never a problem.
“Our office buildings have so
much heat generated inside from
lights, equipment and people, that
on the coldest day of the year in
Texas the average office building is
cooling its interior not heating it,” he
says.
Although new designs are an im
portant part of energy efficient
buildings for the future, Reed says
that refitting old buildings is just as
important. The main reason, he
says, is that 80 percent of all the
buildings in the year 2000 will have
been built before 1984. Only 20 per
cent will be new.
Lighting is one of the easiest and
cheapest ways to increase a build
ing’s energy efficiency, Reed says,
and the addition of glass to a build
ing is not complicated.
Thomas W. Parker, a local ar
chitect, has been building in the
Bryan-Gollege Station area for some
time and says only recently has he
seen any attention paid to energy ef
ficiency.
Parker says that most architectu-
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happy,” just as it was before the
Arao oil embargo, Texas Rail
road Commission Chairman
Mack Wallace said Tuesday.
“There is no glut of oil when
we import 6 million barrels a day
of crude into this country,” he
said at a Texas A&M University
symposium on efficient use of en
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said Wallace. e
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dependent on Arab crude,” he
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dumb and happy, we should be
lean, mean and aggravated.”
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control the price of crude oil in
order to discourage production
in America. He said lower Arab
prices have brought on the de
mise of alternative energy pro
jects and decreased drilling activ
ities.
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dential level, because commerical
building is limited by initial expense.
“Commercial developers are pre
tty tight with the dollars,” he says.
“They don’t really become too con
cerned with what their tenants have
to pay for their utilities.”
Barker says the added costs for
making an energy efficient home
takes a few years to pay off, but
more people are willing to pay those
costs because their savings will con
tinue to increase as other people’s
fuel costs climb through their non
energy efficient roofs.
“We are in a peculiar situation
here right now,” he says. “We have a
tremendous housing glut in the
Bryan-College Station area, yet in
our office we have more custom
homes to design then we have had in
the last five years. I’m sure there is
some correlation between what’s out
there and what people really want.”
Parker says new homes that are
being bought take a large amount of
site analysis. The angle of the sun,
the wind conditions and the natural
shade all must be measured before a
new energy efficient home is de
signed.
The three most important design
techniques used to make homes en
ergy effient, he says are orientation
(the way the house faces), thicker
walls for added insulation and over
hangs that help add light all year
round and keep heat out in the sum
mer and in during the winter.
Photo by PETER ROCm
Skylights such as these in Zachry Engineering Center may
help increase energy efficiency.
Committee to study A&M women
By ROBIN BLACK
Senior Staff Writer
Eight months after its creation,
the Faculty Senate Committee on the
Status of Women in the University
has evolved to a working stage.
The committee — a subcommittee
of the Faculty Senate Executive
Committee — presented an outline
of its charge, goals and objectives at
Monday’s Senate meeting. The com
mittee was established at the Jan. 31
meeting of the Faculty Senate to
evaluate the status of women admin
istrators, faculty, staff and students
at Texas A&M. The committee’s pri
mary objective is similar to that of
another Faculty Senate committee
that was created to study minorities
at the University.
Gayle Schmidt, committee vice
chairman, says one of the commit
tee’s primary goals this year will be
to compare the male/female reward
scale at the University, including sal
ary, rank or promotion and tenure.
“To complete a really extensive
study like this will take the commit
tee about a year,” Schmidt says,
“simply because of the vast amount
of research that must be done.”
Schmidt says the committee will
use as its beginning point a study
published recently by the Office of
Planning and Institutional Analysis
that compares the salaries and work
loads of male and female faculty at
Texas A&M.
The study shows women faculty
members well behind their male co
workers in salary and position.
However, Schmidt says, the study
is very general and unexplanatory.
“All the study really is is numbers
— no descriptive data on ‘what does
this mean?”’ she says. “Looking at
what the graphs and tables actually
mean is something else.”
The committee — which has been
gathering extensive amounts of data
over the past few months — has
come upon one surprising factor,
Schmidt says.
“Every time we meet,” she says,
"we fincl more and morewomenat
A&M than we thought there were
This isn’t really unusual, though,be
cause in a university community
there are people coming and going
all the time — what we’re after isal
most like a moving target.”
Schmidt says she hopes the com
mittee’s year-long study will ultima
tely provide something similar totbe
Texas Plan.
The Texas Plan — effective last
January — provides that Texas
A&M must hire a certain numberof
minorities in administrative posi
tions within the next four years.Tht
plan does not include women
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