Sentences with phrase «about building energy»

I couldn't help feeling after talking to you that you and your predecessors in your job were listening to the wrong people about building energy.

(Sec. 204) Requires the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish a building energy performance labeling program with broad applicability to the residential and commercial markets to enable and encourage knowledge about building energy performance by owners and occupants and to inform efforts to reduce energy consumption nationwide; (2) develop model building energy labels for new residential and commercial buildings; and (3) conduct building energy performance labeling demonstration projects for different building types.

When thinking about the building energy system, it's helpful to distinguish space heating from space cooling and ventilation.

Not exact matches

About 40 percent of the energy used to control the climate in buildings seeps out through windows and doors, producing more than 250 million tons of emissions a year, according to the Department of Eenergy used to control the climate in buildings seeps out through windows and doors, producing more than 250 million tons of emissions a year, according to the Department of EnergyEnergy.

Among many other results, he started a company from scratch in 2009 that now builds about 10 % of Americas new wind energy installations (on average over the past three years).

The agreement follows an announcement earlier this week from Spectra Energy and BG Group about plans to build a natural gas pipeline from northeast B.C. to the coast, joining a throng of companies aiming to export Canadian natural gas to Asia.

Jeb has relentless energy and is passionate about teaming with entrepreneurs to help build successful companies.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

Canada's energy industry is skeptical that major new pipelines can be built in Canada unless the feds make it easier to win approval, and that gives oil producers headaches about planning for future production.

It does not mean energy stocks can not go down more and there is a fair chance that oil may still go down further, however, I feel good about nibbling now to build up positions and add even more positions later if the energy stocks were to go down further, getting Santa Claus gifts even before arrival of Christmas to patient investors and we will be rewarded for that for long time to come.

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A few years ago, during a chat about Traditional Chinese Medicine, I explained that practitioners will advise their patients to nourish and build up the yin energies through autumn and winter and the yang energies in the springtime and summer.

I train about 8 - 10 times a week, and therefore have to get my body the energy it needs in order to recover and build muscles.

For a growing number of consumers, sports drinks are all about providing energy, improving performance and building lean muscle.

Read about our Global Technology & Innovation Centre (GTIC) in Naas, a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building that opened in 2015.

Sustainable winegrowing practices help reduce water and energy use, minimize pesticide use, build healthy soil, protect air and water quality, recycle natural resources, maintain surrounding wildlife habitat, provide employee education, and communicate with neighbors about vineyard and winery operations.

Hear about challenges and opportunities of implementing energy efficiency upgrades at Treasury Wine Estate's historic Asti Winery and the benefits of respecting the historical integrity of a building during retrofits.

Learn more about the how to get free design assistance and save money while planning, building or expanding your energy efficient winery through Pacific Gas & Electric's Savings by Design program and find out more about PG&E rebates and incentive programs at PG&E Agriculture and Food Money - Back Solutions.

My little one was a late term preemie and I had worked very hard in the beginning few weeks to get her to nurse around the clock (she nursed great but only had energy to nurse once or twice a day, so I had to pump around the clock in order to build up and maintain a supply until she could take over at about 5 or 6 weeks old.)

My doctor told me it would be about another week before my energy would start coming back and that I should start taking iron supplements to build my red blood cell count back up.

Think about discovering codes that have changed, the extra brainpower needed to figure out the best energy - saving features (we want to make our new building as green and energy - efficient as possible — extra expense up front, but money - and environment - savings in the long run), and doing everything we can to stay within budget.

He knows when you look at all the building work the government is trying to push, energy is about half of that planned infrastructure investment.

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

Instead of dilly - dallying, a government that genuinely intends to bring about reform should instead be using its energies to build political consensus to tackle these issues at the earliest.

-LRB-... In a presentation Thursday at the Broome County Office Building, a representative from GasFrac Energy Services Inc. said the firm, which has worked on natural gas and oil rigs in Canada and Texas, has had discussions with gas companies about contracting to tap into the state's portion of the Marcellus.

As highlighted in the CIOB response to the consultation about changes to the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP), the Institute supports an approach that narrows the gap between calculated design energy performance and as - built performance of structures.

Gordes said dire predictions then about what would happen to energy costs in New England if Broadwater was not built failed to materialize.

Data has already begun to be collected on the energy efficiency of New York's buildings and work has begun on about 30 million square feet of real estate.

As director of SU's sustainability education, May «works with professors and students from all disciplines, as well as with staff in energy management, food services, parking and transportation, buildings and grounds, and waste management to promote understanding and research about the university as a whole system of resources and best practices,» according to a university webpage.

Representing a smattering of different environmental advocacy groups from around the state, about 250 protesters held signs calling on officials and lawmakers to prohibit any more natural gas pipelines being built in New York, to stop the construction of a proposed liquid natural gas storage facility next to Seneca Lake, and to shift the state's energy production to greener fuel sources....

The administration has argued that preserving nuclear facilities for about a decade will allow New York to build out wind farms and solar arrays while maintaining the largest source of carbon - free energy in New York.

Through these innovations like the green investment bank, yes there is new money... We calculate about # 18bn of new money will go into building, for instance, renewable energy infrastructure during this parliament.

The Greenport Village Board of Trustees put off a vote Friday on a proposed lease with Global Common, the Garden City company looking to build a peak energy power plant on about three acres of village - owned land on Moore's Lane.

«We're developing a year - round Cave of the Winds Experience building, which will have the state - of - the - art interactive displays about the history of the falls, the history of energy,» Harvey said.

It is about time to shift the role of the youth in the party from being passive followers to active participants in building our party with their creativity and energy to mobilize our communities for Development in Freedom.

Also as of 2008, Zayas reported, the site was using about 96,000 British Thermal Units of energy per square foot (BTU / SF) per year, versus the industry standard for a comparable building, which is 162,000 BTU / SF.

Green Schools Energy Curriculum — What opportunities do school buildings themselves provide for helping students develop a scientific foundation for making choices about energy resources and theiEnergy Curriculum — What opportunities do school buildings themselves provide for helping students develop a scientific foundation for making choices about energy resources and theienergy resources and their use?

In the case of Windham, N.H., for instance, the city of about 12,000 recently choose a contract to power all of its city buildings on renewable energy.

If we are serious about reducing energy consumption from buildings we need to add an energy sixth sense to our everyday lives.

Duke Energy is spending $ 2.35 billion to build a 630 - MW IGCC power plant in Edwardsport, Ind., that may become the first commercial CCS project in the country — although as designed (and pending approval), it would capture only about 18 percent of the CO2 it will generate in 2013.

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory hope that piped - in sunlight will put a serious dent in the amount of energy used to light commercial buildings, which accounts for about 10 percent of all electricity consumption in the United States.

A privately funded company called Tri Alpha Energy has built a machine that forms a ball of superheated gas — at about 10 million degrees Celsius — and holds it steady for 5 milliseconds without decaying away.

Process technology has improved steadily in the past 60 years, and since the 1970s, when most existing facilities were built, the amount of energy used per ton of ammonia (as both feed and fuel) has decreased about 30 percent.

This book is about building design, energy use, radiation hazards and air quality.

In a subsequent paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, Jason Wright and colleagues at Penn State University speculated about other causes, including alien megastructures built to harvest energy while orbiting the star.

Similar things can be said about the way they push the boundaries of renewable energy, organization structures, the way they build buildings,» Brilliant adds.

The French nuclear build - out is estimated to have cost about $ 330 billion, yielding a levelized cost of energy of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour.

But they store only about 1 % of the energy they soak up, locking it into the sugars and other organic molecules they use to build their cells.

So the actual energy requirements, when you think about it, over the entire year are very, very low... an alternative thing you could do is just build a satellite... you'd just have solar panels about the same sort of size that the ISS, the International Space Station, has.