Happily, the expansion takes place within
the building envelope at the lower level, wholly preserving the appearance of the original structure, which is widely admired for its sublime proportions, the quality of light that permeates the interior spaces, and for the experience navigating through.
The problems resulting from a chimney being installed in an outside chase or penetrating
the building envelope at or below its top are made far worse if the majority of leaks in the building envelope are concentrate at high levels.
The biggest bang for the buck appears to be a hybrid approach of adding more conditioned space (especially if your property is smaller than comparable properties in the neighborhood) and retrofitting
the building envelope at the same time.
Not exact matches
Here are the energy efficiency rates your subsystems need to be operating
at in order to qualify for a tax break: lighting systems need to be 25 % efficient, HVAC 15 % efficient, and the
building envelope 10 % efficient.
Students explore techniques for energy efficiency in the
built environment (looking
at better wall structures, improving
building envelopes, and reducing energy consumption without compromising services).
Equipped with
built - in protection that absorbs power
at a snap and is designed to protect the hips as well as the
envelope.
It stretches the performance
envelope for Corvette with unprecedented levels of aerodynamic downforce,
at least 625 horsepower from an all - new supercharged engine, and an all - new, high - performance eight - speed automatic transmission — all
building on the advanced driver technologies introduced on the Corvette Stingray.
Notes starting from April 18, 2007 Notes starting from May 22, 2007 covered the following topics: Interesting Quote, Price Peaks, An Illusion of Numbers, Subtle Observation about Dividend Capture,
Building On a 45 - Year Retirement, Starting
at 5 %, Starting
at 5 % with Risk, Evidence - Based Technical Analysis, Rock Bottom Withdrawal Rate, More Interesting Quotes, Monitoring the Dividend Blend, Automatic Allocator, Back of the
Envelope: Dividend Blend, Dividend Rule of Thumb, Excellent Discussions, Honeymoon, Dividend Blend Rule of Thumb, Scenario Surfer Status Report, Morningstar?
whom has done nothing with their gaming budget other than throwing it around as handouts in order to share PS3 games... and all the while closing numerous in house studios... a lot of MGS games are even based off of UE3... instead of MS
building a proprietary middleware product line shared throughout their internal studios... they license 3rd party middleware instead... an easy way to make a decent looking game quickly... but never a way to push ANY
envelopes,
at least not after the engine is already 3 years old... but Sony does this each generation... the 1st party stuff initially shows off what the system can do earlier on than any 3rd party software (well mostly, MGS2 was one of the first to push the PS2, MGS4 ditto for the PS3)... and 3rd pary stuff gets up to speed afterwards... you WILL see some incredible 3rd party content eventually, but for now... SCE is the only company pumping millions into the tech side of game development... MS isn't... and Nintendo doesn't even know what any of that is...
Therefore, conditions should be maintained within a
building such that the critical 70 (or higher) percent relative humidity
at a
building envelope surface does not occur.
Until such time as the durability of
building envelopes can be designed and predicted as accurately as that for structures, measures of sustainability remain highly questionable
at the design stage.
This was done for TC 4.4
Building Materials and
Building Envelope Performance by Mark Lawton's team
at Morrison Hershield.
These pictures were taken
at an open house for a home
built by Oasis Hybrid Homes near Emigrant, MT.. A very nice home with a good thermal
envelope, rain catchment, grey water recycling, and solar water and electricity.
If your AC is already doing all it can, you may need to take a look
at your
building envelope.
One of the things that happens when you learn
building science and HVAC design principles is that you can no longer go into any
building without looking
at the
building envelope and mechanical systems.
Watch the 1:05:05 video presentation «From Passive House to the Cold North — How Vegetative
Envelope Components Impact
Buildings» Panel now playing
at the Greenroofs & Walls of the World Virtual Summit 2015.
Do today what is important to your financial success let others do the junk work (
building a mailing list, licking stamps and
envelopes, wasting time
at REIA meetings, talking to people about nothing, taking a long time to look
at useless email messages, doing stuff that someone else can do for you.
Are you driving for dollars, writing your own letters, stuffing your own
envelopes,
building your own websites, creating your own flyers, taking the calls from sellers, inspecting the properties, getting them under contract, then posting the properties online, pitching them
at meetings, showing the properties to investors, etc?