Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 1:28:23 GMT -5
The US Army is currently testing a new design of energy saving camps that save money, fuel and water and feature solar power, the Army has announced.
The camps, which offer energy and resource reductions of to percent over traditional canvas set-ups, don’t feature tents in their traditional sense at all. Instead, soldiers’ shelters are ridged-sided boxes that resemble shipping containers. The containers are made material lightweight enough that one soldier can lift a -foot wall section.
Shelters have an insulation R-Value of approximately , compared to four for tents. They feature LED lighting, motion-detecting switches, low-water efficient CG Leads laundry systems, low-water latrines and shower heads, waterless urinals, rain water collection systems, shower water reuse systems and highly-efficient generator micro grids, the Army says.
One nod to the shelter’s canvas predecessors is a solar shading canopy – that looks very much like a canvas roof – suspended above the container. As well as cutting down the amount of the sun’s heat energy that reaches the shelter, the shading features photovoltaics and battery power storage.
As a result of the resource efficiency, convoys needed to deliver fuel and water to base camps in war zones would be reduced, putting fewer soldiers at risk.
Each rigid-wall shelter can house soldiers and be set up in less than minutes by four people. Current test sites include Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Bliss, Texas. Two more test camps are to be set up at Fort Devens, Mass., and one in Australia. Small camps could be deployed in Afghanistan by this summer, the Army says.
The US Army invested $. million of its $ million goal in energy saving initiatives from December to December , and is on target to meet its goal next year, according to an Army News Service report released at the end of last year.
To date, the Army says it has awarded energy savings performance contract task orders to private contractors and nine utility energy services contract task orders to utility companies to meet its target by Dec. , . These contracts cover energy-efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting systems, and water projects.
The Army’s first UESCs were completed in , and ESPCs followed in . Some $. billion in energy contracts have been performed in ESPCs and $ million through UESCs since then.
The camps, which offer energy and resource reductions of to percent over traditional canvas set-ups, don’t feature tents in their traditional sense at all. Instead, soldiers’ shelters are ridged-sided boxes that resemble shipping containers. The containers are made material lightweight enough that one soldier can lift a -foot wall section.
Shelters have an insulation R-Value of approximately , compared to four for tents. They feature LED lighting, motion-detecting switches, low-water efficient CG Leads laundry systems, low-water latrines and shower heads, waterless urinals, rain water collection systems, shower water reuse systems and highly-efficient generator micro grids, the Army says.
One nod to the shelter’s canvas predecessors is a solar shading canopy – that looks very much like a canvas roof – suspended above the container. As well as cutting down the amount of the sun’s heat energy that reaches the shelter, the shading features photovoltaics and battery power storage.
As a result of the resource efficiency, convoys needed to deliver fuel and water to base camps in war zones would be reduced, putting fewer soldiers at risk.
Each rigid-wall shelter can house soldiers and be set up in less than minutes by four people. Current test sites include Fort Benning, Ga., and Fort Bliss, Texas. Two more test camps are to be set up at Fort Devens, Mass., and one in Australia. Small camps could be deployed in Afghanistan by this summer, the Army says.
The US Army invested $. million of its $ million goal in energy saving initiatives from December to December , and is on target to meet its goal next year, according to an Army News Service report released at the end of last year.
To date, the Army says it has awarded energy savings performance contract task orders to private contractors and nine utility energy services contract task orders to utility companies to meet its target by Dec. , . These contracts cover energy-efficient heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting systems, and water projects.
The Army’s first UESCs were completed in , and ESPCs followed in . Some $. billion in energy contracts have been performed in ESPCs and $ million through UESCs since then.