Sentences with phrase «building insulation»

However, this often reduces to building insulation efficiency, which is great, but not so easily implemented on a large scale.

In warmer climates, most other standard building insulation options are an option.

You may want to build an insulation layer around your enclosure to help maintain heat in case of power failure.

Building insulation saves up to 40 times the energy used to create it; plastic house wrap that creates a weather resistant barrier saves up to 360 times the energy used to produce it.

They can range from defective gas pedals in cars to children's toys with toxic paint to asbestos building insulation causing cancer to drugs for pregnant mothers that result in birth defects.

First off, it's a copolymer, basically a everyday plastic that is also used in building insulation, car parts and composite wood panels... what!?

About 20,000 tons have been produced worldwide every year, mostly for polystyrene panels used for building insulation.

Compared to DECC's climate - friendly futures, Shell sees people travelling further, using fewer electric or hydrogen cars and making lesser efforts to improve building insulation.

The resulting pieces are strong enough to be used to construct everything from household furniture, such as side tables and shelving units, and can also be used as building insulation.

The Eco Connect Bottle ® is the only single serve water bottle that was designed to be repurposed and give durable empty water bottles a new life as something else... a table, a desk, storage cubes, toys and even building insulation.

Increasing or replacing building insulation and sealing air leaks in almost all of our 150 heated buildings.

Indeed, optimising the number and the shape of bonds between fibres would improve the integrity of the material, and yield higher building insulation efficiency.

Corresponding conservation measures are improving home building insulation, compact fluorescent lamps and choosing energy - efficient vehicles.

Factor in up to 30 % transmission losses across the grid and in step down transformers as well as 50 - 80 % savings in demand from more efficient appliances, better buildings insulation etc. and the numbers start to make a bit more sense.

3.1 Substantially lowering the energy consumption of buildings — with building insulation, heat pumps, solar heating and highly - efficient appliances and lighting among others — is essential in both ACT and BLUE scenarios.

You tax carbon and use the revenues to fund building insulation retrofits, and the purachase of green appliances and machinery.

New systems to improve energy efficiency, including: heating and air conditioning equipment; lighting with occupancy sensors and daylight dimming controls; Energy Star kitchen appliances, computers and monitors; new building insulation and window tint to reduce glare, heat gain and air conditioning load.

But with the design already settled, and prompted by New Zealand's low building insulation standards, the clients made a game - changing request: that the dwelling meet the passive house standard.

They include building new power lines from Germany's windy north to the industrial south, dismantling nuclear power plants and investing in energy - efficiency measures like building insulation.

• Decreased electricity costs by 33 % by suggesting building insulation techniques.

Many years ago, floors fitted with under - floor heating were overheated to compensate for poor building insulation.

Insulation Materials Another emerging market for hemp and flax fibers in Europe is their use in building insulation.

No wonder, then, that the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) regularly raises the requirements for building insulation.

It was used in such applications as electrical insulation for hotplate wiring and in building insulation.

Common areas to find urine and droppings from rodents are in the building insulation and near food and water sources.

Recycled polycarbonate (PC) and polyurethane (PUR) are ideal for building insulation, refrigerators, cushions and packaging products.

For example, radioactive radon, naturally liberated from the granite below houses, or the asbestos extracted from mines for building insulation, have been found to increase the chances of developing lung cancer.

Building insulation was made from recycled denim, eliminating waste destined for landfills.

(Hot water system losses are counted in PHPP as if they were part of the heating system, so that the design of hot water system doesn't give you any leeway in specifying the building insulation levels.)

While specifics vary from program to program, savings categories frequently include financial incentives for HVAC systems, water heaters, building insulation, appliances, weatherization, lighting, and other energy efficient improvements.