//PHOTO SLIDESHOW - Green Builders //Variables for each Array ************************************************************* var photo=new Array() var description=new Array() photo[1]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/01cityscape.jpg" description[1]="The Cityscape Model Home in Atlantic City
Developed by the Casino Reinvestment and Development Authority, this duplex home incorporates both PV (photovoltaics) and small wind systems, is super-insulated, uses sustainable and recycled materials throughout, and is designed to optimize passive solar gain through its south-facing windows." photo[2]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/02first.jpg" description[2]="The Fully Independent Residential Solar Technology (FIRST) Home, East Amwell
This super-efficient, zero-energy home incorporates extensive passive solar design and advanced heat storage systems and is able to function independently of the power grid. Electricity for the home and its office run off of a 1.4 kilowatt array of thin film photovoltaics, visible on the roof." photo[3]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/03millennia.jpg" description[3]="Millennia Square Development
The first of three examples from the Millennia Square development in the Northeast Inlet neighborhood of Atlantic City. This modest, attractive cape is designed to be essentially a 'zero-energy' home, one that minimizes the amount of energy it needs to run effectively and then generates the energy it does need through the photovoltaic system visible on the roof." photo[4]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/04millennia.jpg" description[4]="Millennia Square Development
The second of the three examples from the Millennia Square development in the Northeast Inlet neighborhood of Atlantic City. Developed by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, all the Millennia Square homes are designed to be affordable – to buy and to own – and to take maximum advantage of the sun through proper orientation (long side facing south) and through maximum use of photovoltaics." photo[5]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/05millennia.jpg" description[5]="Millennia Square Development
The third of the three examples from the Millennia Square development in the Northeast Inlet neighborhood of Atlantic City. These compact, attractive homes look just like other homes in their neighborhood and, in fact, would fit in anywhere along the Jersey shore. It’s hard to believe, just by looking at them, that they’re super-efficient, zero-energy homes that were actually built in a factory and shipped to the site." photo[6]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/06basfhouse.jpg" description[6]="The BASF Near-Zero Energy Home, Paterson
This single-family home successfully addresses two significant challenges. It is designed and equipped to handle the significant medical needs of its occupants (a quadriplegic boy and his family), while, at the same time, driving down the family’s energy costs to “near zero.” Combining a variety of innovative building foundation, wall and roof systems – many of which were prefabricated - with a highly efficient HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system and solar power for hot water and electricity, the home uses 80% less energy than an equivalent home of the same size. The project earned the highest rating LEED Platinum." photo[7]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/07waterfrontech.jpg" description[7]="Waterfront Technology Center, Camden
This technology-oriented office building has been designed to accommodate existing businesses in the biosciences, microelectronics, advanced materials, information technology and other high-technology and life sciences fields. True to its mission, it also uses technology to radically improve its overall performance – like the heat recovery wheel that uses exhaust air to pre-heat (or, in the summer, pre-cool) air entering the building, or the sun shades on the south and west elevations that reduce solar gain and increase the quality of daylight in the offices. The facility achieved a LEED Gold rating from the US Green Building Council." photo[8]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/08lincoln.jpg" description[8]="Lincoln School, Kearny
This elementary school is one of seven facilities in the Kearny School District that decided to take advantage of their large, flat roofs – and their unobstructed access to sunlight – to generate electricity using photovoltaics. In all, the district installed systems totaling more than 1.3 megawatts of electricity output – one of the largest aggregated PV arrays for a school district in the country. The system installed here covers most of the school roof and can generate up to 150 kilowatts of electrical power." photo[9]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/09lincoln.jpg" description[9]="Lincoln School, Kearny
The photovoltaic systems installed in Kearny were all “ballasted systems” like the one shown here. Such systems use concrete blocks or other weights to hold down the photovoltaic panels. This both avoids the need for bolt down holes in the roof (that could lead to leaks) while, at the same time, allowing for faster and easier installation." photo[10]="http://www.pbs.org/greenbuilders/slideshow/10summerfield.jpg" description[10]="Summerfield Elementary School, Neptune
The design of this school deliberately evokes New Jersey’s rural past, yet it is packed with green features and technologies, including a system that captures rainwater and uses it for irrigation, and a field of 94 400-foot-deep geothermal wells that extract heat from the ground in winter and reject heat to the ground in summer, dramatically improving the performance of the school’s heating and cooling systems. The school achieved a LEED Gold rating and its green features have been incorporated into instructional materials designed to teach Summerfield students the value and methods of being good stewards of the environment."