Sentences with phrase «building retrofit technologies»

Building retrofit technologies and thermal bridging pioneered by the Princeton House Doctors at the Twin Rivers Retrofit between 1976 - 1979, established that insulation and airtightness gave far better payback periods than active systems like seasonal storage tanks.

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Our plan includes an ambitious program of energy retrofits for public and private buildings, upgrades to maximize our existing hydroelectric dams, and an aggressive move toward renewable technologies like wind and solar power.

That there's a way to do it that is entirely compatible with strong economic growth and job creation - that taking steps, for example, to retrofit buildings all across America with existing technologies will reduce our power usage by 15 or 20 percent.

This resource allows testing of innovative technologies and designs for seismic safety of new buildings and retrofitting techniques for existing structures.

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.

The research shows that, to meet the 2C target, no new carbon - emitting power stations can be built anywhere in the world unless they are later closed down or retrofitted with carbon capture and storage technology.

This report provides a detailed review of the global market for technologies utilized in the manufacture and use of energy retrofit technologies in building applications.

For each country and its respective geographical region, the report analyzes key market traits, market drivers and industry - specific attributes to effectively explain the market opportunity for energy retrofit technologies used in public and private commercial building applications, including:

Energy retrofit expenditures (by building segment, building type and energy retrofit technology).

Global trends and projections in the market for energy retrofit technologies by technology, product type, application, building segment and geographical region, from 2014 to 2020.

In this first instalment of his brand new «Help Desk» feature, architect and passive house designer Simon McGuinness of Dublin Institute of Technology invites questions on all aspects of passive house, retrofit and low energy building.

More than 3,000 buildings in China use Johnson Controls» solutions and services, including HVAC, refrigeration technology, building automation and energy retrofit.

Thus, the problem with the proposals currently being discussed in Congress: They will, for the foreseeable future, direct private investment toward the least expensive emissions reductions (such as burning methane from landfills, purchasing forest land for carbon sequestration, or retrofitting power plants and buildings so they operate more efficiently) rather than toward breakthrough technologies (like low - cost solar energy and carbon capture and storage), which are too expensive to become widely adopted today but which are vital for creating a new energy economy and thus drastically reducing emissions.

LCA and LCCA of numerous green technology building retrofits, with Steven Winter Associates and the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Rather than retrofit its autonomous technology into a standard I - Pace, Waymo and JLR will in fact build the cars to be self - driving from scratch.

Major projects initiated by former President Bill Clinton and CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. should propel efforts to retrofit millions of square feet of existing commercial and government buildings with «green» technology.

Retrofitting an older building with the latest technologies or even equipping a newer building with amenities that will attract tech - savvy tenants and increase efficiencies can be costly.

DOE requested proposals from its National Labs and from private sector companies to develop technologies designed to enable energy savings of 50 % above the standard set by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air - Conditioning Engineers for new commercial building designs, and a savings of 30 % for retrofits to existing buildings.