Collaborative Research: NNA Incubator: Improving Culturally Sensitive Energy Strategies in the Arctic Residential Buildings with the Co-Production of Knowledge Framework

合作研究：NNA 孵化器：通过共同制作知识框架改善北极住宅建筑的文化敏感能源战略

• 批准号: 2318394
• 负责人: Olga Lauter
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NNA; Incubator; Improving

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. This Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region, and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by addressing interactions among social systems and built environments in the following NNA focus areas: Arctic Residents and Resilient Infrastructure.The climate in much of the Arctic is characterized by long cold winters and short cool summers. Global climate change is shifting the Arctic climate by raising temperatures and melting snow and ice at an increasing rate. These changes are causing unique challenges to the sustainable operation of residential buildings in Alaska Native communities as these buildings are often energy inefficient due to inadequate insulation, thermal bridges, and air leakage. In addition to inadequate building conditions, energy and electricity prices in Alaska are often higher than the average prices in the lower 48 States, thereby causing additional challenges to Alaska Native communities. The overarching goal of this NNA Incubator project is to explore the design, development, and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions in collaboration with partners and stakeholders from two Indigenous communities from the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. To advance this goal, the project research team proposes to investigate the relationships between socio-cultural factors, building design/construction strategies, building energy efficiency, and climate in residential buildings from the target Alaska Bristol Bay region of study. The successful completion of this project will benefit society through the development and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework that could be used to identify and design solutions to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions. Additional benefits to society will be achieved through student education and training including the mentoring of one graduate student at Iowa State University. To design and develop solutions for improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings of Indigenous communities in Alaska, it is critical to engage these communities and relevant stakeholders from the beginning of the research within a co-production of knowledge framework. In this NNA Incubator project, the Principal Investigators (PIs) propose to engage with two Indigenous communities and stakeholders in the Alaska Bristol Bay region with the goal of building reciprocal and trustful relationships to advance the design and implementation of a co-production of knowledge framework to improve residential building energy efficiency in Arctic regions. The specific objectives of the proposed research are to (1) investigate in what ways socio-cultural components impact housing construction and energy usage in Alaska Indigenous communities; (2) evaluate how socio-cultural components and climate affect residential building construction, and assess the main barriers to energy efficient residential building construction; (3) assess how socio-cultural components and climate affect residential building design and energy use patterns, and extract critical factors for energy analysis, and (4) understand and predict how future climate change in Alaska might affect energy usage in residential buildings using modeling and simulations. By integrating targeted need assessment studies, workshops, and the results of modeling and simulation studies, the project research team hopes to identify critical energy-usage-related features in Arctic residential buildings associated with the unique cultural background and heritage of Alaska Indigenous communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

NSF的10个大创意之一是导航新北极（NNA）。 NNA项目应对北极快速变化的融合科学挑战。需要进行这项北极研究，以告知国家，较大地区和地球的经济，安全和弹性。 NNA赋予从本地量表到国际规模的新研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强了正规和非正式教育方面的努力，并在适当的情况下整合了知识的共同生产。该奖项通过解决以下NNA焦点领域中的社会系统和建筑环境之间的互动来实现这一目标的一部分：北极居民和弹性基础设施。大部分北极气候的特征是长期寒冷的冬季和短暂的凉爽夏季。全球气候变化正在通过升高温度和融化降雪速度来转移北极气候。这些变化引起了阿拉斯加本地社区住宅建筑可持续运营的独特挑战，因为这些建筑物通常由于绝缘，热桥和空气泄漏而效率低下。除了建筑条件不足之外，阿拉斯加的能源和电价通常高于低48个州的平均价格，从而对阿拉斯加原住民社区造成了额外的挑战。该NNA孵化器项目的总体目标是探索知识框架共同生产的设计，开发和实施，以与来自阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区的两个土著社区的合作伙伴和利益相关者合作提高北极地区的住宅建筑能源效率。为了促进这一目标，项目研究小组建议研究社会文化因素，建立设计/建设策略，建立能源效率和气候的关系，从目标阿拉斯加·布里斯托尔湾研究区域中。该项目的成功完成将通过开发和实施知识框架的共同生产来使社会受益，该框架可用于识别和设计解决方案，以提高北极地区的住宅建筑能源效率。通过学生的教育和培训将为社会带来其他好处，包括在爱荷华州立大学指导一名研究生。为了设计和开发解决方案，以提高阿拉斯加土著社区的住宅建筑的能源效率，从研究开始就与知识框架的共同生产开始，使这些社区和相关利益相关者与这些社区和相关利益相关者的联系至关重要。在这个NNA孵化器项目中，首席研究人员（PIS）建议与阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾地区的两个土著社区和利益相关者进行互动，目的是建立相互和信任的关系，以推动设计和实施知识框架的共同生产，以提高Arctic地区的住宅建筑能源效率。拟议的研究的具体目标是（1）研究社会文化组成部分影响阿拉斯加土著社区的住房建设和能源使用情况； （2）评估社会文化组成部分和气候如何影响住宅建筑建设，并评估能源有效的住宅建筑建设的主要障碍； （3）评估社会文化组成部分和气候如何影响住宅建筑设计和能源使用模式，并提取能源分析的关键因素，以及（4）理解和预测阿拉斯加未来的气候变化如何使用建模和模拟来影响住宅建筑中的能源使用。通过整合目标的评估研究，研讨会以及建模和仿真研究的结果，项目研究小组希望确定北极住宅建筑与与阿拉斯加原住民社区的独特文化背景和遗产相关的关键能源与途径相关的特征。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务和审查的范围，这是通过评估的范围来弥补的。