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Text Box: Energy Efficiency Text Box: HCNA – EPICS Historic Centennial Neighborhood Association – Engineering Projects in Community Services EPICS is a unique program in which teams of Purdue University undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service. The Historic Cent4ennial Neighborhood Association – Engineering Projects in Community Service (HCNA - EPICS) team is using its technical, engineering and communication skills to improve the energy efficiency of historic houses in the Historic Centennial Neighborhood of Lafayette, Indiana.. Improving energy efficiency of historic homes without compromising the architectural features of the houses will not only benefit Centennial Neighborhood but other comparable urban neighborhoods anywhere in the country. High energy costs are a fundamental deterrent for people to purchase, restore and live in historic houses, such as those in Historic Centennial Neighborhood and other adjacent older neighborhoods. With the deterrent removed, older/historic houses become more economically attractive. Increased homeownership in the historic downtown neighborhoods strengthens the downtown and is part of a strategy to reduce demand on outlying farm land for new housing developments. HCNA – EPICS’ web site is: http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/hcna. The web site for Historic Centennial Neighborhood is www.historiccentennial.org. Take a virtual walk through the neighborhood where most of the housing was built between 1845 and 1920.

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