Sentences with phrase «building occupants as»

The Institute has strongly encouraged the use of regularly updated user guides for building occupants as a means of tackling this gap and to advise users on how best to operate low carbon technologies in buildings.

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The third question, says study co-author Erica Kuligowski, includes a specialized and dedicated egress system known as an occupant evacuation elevator (OEE) that has great potential for getting people with mobility impairments out of a building safely and quickly, without the assistance of others, and without having to leave behind their mobility devices (such as scooters, walkers and wheelchairs).

The gills» movement also acts as a visual warning to building occupants.

The indoor environmental quality measured in green buildings is better compared to typical buildings and, as a result, occupants have less exposure to allergens, pollutants and environmental contaminants such as the harmful gas formaldehyde found in some building materials.

Shelley Winters plays the concierge, a woman with little time for the others occupants; veteran Hollywood actor Melyyn Douglas is Monsieur Zy, the recalcitrant owner of the building who demands that his tenants live as quietly as possible; other tenants include the shrewish M. Dioz (Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, The King and Four Queens) who wages spiteful wars on those with whom she has fallen into disagreement, and the meek mother (Lila Kedrova — The Kremlin Letter) and her disabled daughter who become the focus of Dioz's vitriol.

The building occupants The most obvious difference in cleaning a school as opposed to any other business premises is of course its occupants.

The National Education Association reports that schools have four times as many occupants per square foot as office buildings.

«Built on an all - new platform, the redesigned Sorento utilizes Kia's advanced safety equipment and technologies to provide a high level of occupant protection for drivers and their families as measured by the U.S. government,» said Orth Hedrick, executive director, product planning, Kia Motors America.

The safest Sportage yet — stronger body and a wealth of active safety systems Safety, as always, is a top priority for Kia, and the all - new Kia Sportage builds on the brand's reputation for offering the highest standards in occupant and pedestrian crash safety.

Total protection is evidenced by six airbags as standard (two of which are Multistage), three - point seatbelts with double pretensioners and load limit limiters and SAHR (Self Aligning Head Restraints), a new second - generation device built into the backrests of the front seats that moves the head restraints closer to the occupants» heads in the event of an impact to lessen the effects of whiplash.

Hard plastics and average build quality on some minor panels are still noticeable and the rear seats are still as unusable as before but the cargo space is decent and the 86 offers more than enough luggage space for two occupants.

Puri Taman Sari is designed and built based on Balinese ancient architectural law which is known as Asta Kosala Kosali, to ensure the harmony between the occupant, the building and environment.

There's a clawing desperation to the game, as when zombies attack a human building, more zombies explode forth from within as the occupants succumb to bites and join the horde.

Learn about the art career and patronage of one of the studio's most famous occupants, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who founded the Whitney Museum at the site, and used the building as her private studio, salon and gallery

«I go out and draw on the spot, as I sit and draw from my car, a particular grouping of buildings upon a landscape or an odd embellishment suggests an unarticulated imaginary narrative of the occupants and passers - by.

As another example, occupants of the passive house Lancaster Co-housing development also reported high satisfaction with their homes in a building user survey, including with the air quality: none said the ventilation was noisy, in fact some commented that you couldn't actually hear it to tell whether it was running.

WELL is grounded in evidence - based medical research that demonstrates the connection between the buildings where we spend more than 90 percent of our time and health and wellness impacts on us as occupants.

By using this tool, owners, architects, engineers and builders can ensure their buildings will perform as well as possible - despite the capricious nature of occupant behavior variances.

Self - regulating building systems, achieved through automation, program the home to become more energy efficient over time as the virtual house technology learns from its environment and the occupants» lifestyles.

Buildings that are designed or refurbished to use little energy all too often fail to deliver the expected performance, if the building occupants aren't able to use the building as intended.

Zachariasse is working with Arizona State University's Global Sustainability Solutions Center to demonstrate linkages between the quality of buildings and their impact on occupants, measuring factors such as carbon dioxide levels, toxicity, sound, and light.

Kathryn Janda, author of a recent report on home energy use from the UK Energy Research Centre said: «Often, buildings don't perform as expected, partially because occupants behave in more complex ways than designers account for; they open windows, leave doors open, generate body heat, keep tropical fish tanks and install plasma TV screens.»

As part of the LEED certification, building owners can earn points by installing a minimum amount of bicycle racks per occupants, so in many ways NYC is simply putting into law what LEED enables developers to do voluntarily.

Now life imitates art as Chartier - Corbasson Architectes propose a tower for London that grows as needed with its walls built from the garbage generated by its occupants and by construction sites in the neighborhood.

«America is in the midst of a large experiment in which weatherization efforts, retrofits, and other initiatives that affect air exchange between the indoor and outdoor environments are taking place and new building materials and consumer products are being introduced indoors with relatively little consideration as to how they might affect the health of occupants,» said a statement from John Spengler, the chairman of the committee that wrote the report.

Condo ownership is shared among all the occupants in the building, for which you all share a commercial insurance policy to cover the entire building and shared spaces such as a gym, lobby, or garage.

My girlfriend and I recently moved into a pre-war building in Brooklyn, and as far as we know, every single former occupant of the building has died.

Today the county has added many facilities such as a library, museum, 7 parks, a civic center, community building, a Senior Citizen arena and a rodeo arena for the cowboys that are occupants of the county.

Educate the building occupants on fire and life safety protocols as well as in - building areas in the event of an emergency.

As part of their duties, building managers oversee the safety of building occupants, ensuring emergency exit signs are visible and building is free of hazard.

«Landlord represents, warrants, and covenants that from and after the Effective Date, neither Landlord nor any Landlord Affiliate will lease any space in the Building (except the Premises hereby demised) as the same may now exist or as now being reconstructed or as enlarged or altered at any time in the future -LSB-...] or permit the use or occupancy of any such space, whether at wholesale or at retail, to any tenant or other occupant which sells, or displays for sale or provides services in any one or more of the following: cosmetic services.»

A building far superior in occupant comfort and energy consumption is created; awareness of better building materials and techniques is heightened and solutions to significantly reducing energy use are seen as reachable,» said Wafer.

By allowing this period for owner occupants, some non profits, as well as public entities and their partners to submit offers and purchase properties without competition from investors, Fannie Mae encourages home ownership and helps to build stronger communities.

The management office doubles as a gathering space for building occupants, with a kitchen and seating area that includes a restaurant - style booths and bar that offers a keg of beer and coffee.

Having a proactive plan in place to keep buildings well maintained not only enhances the appearance and value of properties, it allows a property manager to address vital maintenance issues, such as expenses, contract agreements, inspections and communication with building occupants and owners.