Design of an Energy and Water Efficient Hotel

Grand beach - the prototype of the design hotel

Located in Tropical climate, buildings in Miami requires cooling around the year. Space conditioning and domestic hot water systems account for 41% of all energy usage in a hotel. To save the energy for space cooling and domestic hot water heating, we proposed a heat recovery system which pre-heats the city water using the waste heat from space cooling. We also proposed to collect, store and process the rain water for non-portable usage. The system is implemented at the Grand Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, FL. This is a joint project with UCI Engineering.

Press Release

Publications

R. J. Miranda, S. Huang, G. A. Barrios, D. Li, W. Zuo 2015. “Energy Efficient Design for Hotels in the Tropical Climate Using Modelica.” Proceedings of the 11th International Modelica Conference, pp. 71-78, September 21-23, Versailles, France.

Figure SBS lab researcher Rey Miranda is giving a technical tour at the Grand Beach Hotel

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