Sentences with phrase «building operations energy»

a highly energy efficient building that produces on - site, or procures, enough carbon - free renewable energy to meet building operations energy consumption annually.

When the entire existing global building sector — 1.49 trillion square feet — is taken into account, annual building operations energy consumption and GHG emissions greatly exceeds the annual embodied energy and emissions of new construction.

Not exact matches

But after crunching some Department of Energy data, Surace estimates that the construction and operation of buildings — heating; cooling; lighting; the manufacture of cement, drywall, and glass — produce 52 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

MoonLite is building its first data center (mining operation) in Iceland, which is the unofficial capital of world datacenters due to its inherent need for the heat energy that data centers could offer.

Efficient 24V drive technology minimizes energy consumption By contrast with conventional conveyor systems that are equipped with a drive in continuous operation, the Interroll RollerDrive makes it possible to build up an intelligently controlled conveyor system divided into zones.

First of all: Every Vertical Farm is different and Construction and Operation costs depend on city location, availability, technology used, local laws and Policy, energy source, climate, type of building and many other variables.

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.

The New York Power Authority «houses its New York Energy Manager Network Operations Center, the digital brain of NYPA's energy monitoring operation for government buildings across the state, at SUNY Poly,» spokesman Paul DeMichele said in an Energy Manager Network Operations Center, the digital brain of NYPA's energy monitoring operation for government buildings across the state, at SUNY Poly,» spokesman Paul DeMichele said in an energy monitoring operation for government buildings across the state, at SUNY Poly,» spokesman Paul DeMichele said in an email.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

The Block Island Wind Project is the first commercial offshore wind farm ever built in the U.S., and the start of its operation marks the the beginning of a brand new clean energy industry in the United States.

That would require quantifying how much energy it takes to build and use a web compared with the cost of performing the same operations with brain tissue.

This requires the right building blocks and ample energy to fuel the operation.

For one thing, the metering is likely to be installed earlier (the smart meter programme will not be completed until 2020) and advanced metering will enable multi-site operations where buildings have different energy consumptions (and therefore different electricity «profiles») to be integrated within a single energy management programme.

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

This Canadian energy stock has largely built from within, expanding its own operations and securing firm long - term power - purchase contracts.

The Academy boasts to be the world's greenest museum, with its energy efficient design, living roof, sustainable materials, and solar canopy, just some of the features that earned it the US Green Building Council's highest ever rating for sustainability, and established it as the world's first ever double platinum museum, with LEED platinum ratings for both it's design and operation.

Professor Baglione's work leverages 41 Cooper Square as a learning laboratory, exposing students to practical applications of theory they learn and to research projects related to state - of - the - art building controls and energy efficient operations.

Tate has taken a leading role in sustainability issues within the sector and continues to strengthen the energy efficiency of its buildings and operation.

The firm, which has offices and operations in more than 60 countries across over 5,500 properties, covering approximately 75 million square feet — about 27 times the square footage of the office space at the Empire State Building - will achieve this goal by prioritizing transactions that add new renewable energy to the grids on which it consumers power.

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

In its 2010 annual report Peabody notes that the New York Office of the Attorney General Subpoena wrote to Peabody on June 14, 2007 and referred to the company's «plans to build new coal - fired electric generating units,» and stated that the «increase in CO2 emissions from the operation of these units, in combination with Peabody Energy's other coal - fired power plants, will subject Peabody Energy to increased financial, regulatory, and litigation risks.»

«Maximizing energy efficiency across our campus operations in both our existing and new buildings is our first priority,» the report says.

«Over a third of the energy consumed in industrialised countries is used for building operation, mainly for heating and cooling.

That means thinking beyond our own operations and working with partners to accelerate the pace of clean energy and build a greener grid for all, while keeping costs low for customers and ratepayers.

It is widely accepted by biologists that the new roads built to serve oil, gas and wind energy production operations may facilitate, or even directly allow, the transportation of invasive species, but specific cases are largely undocumented, so scientists are forced to rely on their general knowledge regarding invasive species introductions.

An operation optimization and decision framework for a building cluster with distributed energy systems X Li, J Wen and A Malkawi Applied Energyenergy systems X Li, J Wen and A Malkawi Applied EnergyEnergy, 2016

The Federal Government has announced that by 2025, 100 % of electricity used in their buildings and operations will be from renewable energy sources.

Reuters Denmark's DONG Energy (DENERG.CO) said on Thursday it would build a multi-million pound maintenance hub in Grimsby, northeast England, to provide services for its offshore wind operations.

Approximately one - third of Canada's secondary energy use is due to the operation of buildings.

Whether for a Passive House construction, high - performance home or a new home subject to stricter building codes, Zehnder's Comfosystems provide the highest standard for quiet operation, energy - efficiency, indoor air quality and performance.

The first phase is optimizing energy efficiency in its operations and buildings.

Renewable energy resources can be used as an option to get to zero site energy, or carbon - neutral operation, as well as net - positive operation (the building makes more energy than it consumes).

McManus explains that his operation has a «much lower embodied energy» than other building techniques such as pre-fabricated constructions; it does not require factory space, forklifts, trucks, tractors and machinery in order to build a house.

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The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System ™ is a third - party certification program and an internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

Paul has taught thousands of real estate professionals, architects, engineers, and building operators in building energy codes, green leasing techniques, and building operations.

This week Passive House Canada members RDH and Red Door Energy Design in Vancouver announced they are merging, combining the Passive House consulting and certification operations of Red Door with RDH Building Science.

While the majority of the energy consumption, and their associated emissions, come from building operations (such as heating, cooling, and lighting), the embodied energy and emissions of building materials and products are also becoming increasingly significant.

Sterling and Wilson, an award - winning EPC contractor, has installed nearly 1 GW of solar energy projects in India alone, and continues to lead the industry as more than 3,500 of its highly skilled workforce build international solar operations across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and has already commissioned nearly 150 MW in solar farms across Africa and Southeast Asia.

«The purpose of this code is to establish minimum requirements to safeguard the public safety, health and general welfare through affordability, structural strength, means of egress facilities, stability, sanitation, light and ventilation, energy conservation and safety to life and property from fire and other hazards attributed to the built environment and to provide safety to fire fighters and emergency responders during emergency operations.»

In industrialised countries, the operation of buildings accounts for more than a third of total energy consumption.

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Wind farms repay the energy used to build them in around the first six months of operation, after that they just sit there and generate clean electricity.

As more wind units are built and data become available regarding their integration into conventional energy systems, we will learn more about the effects of wind units on the operation of conventional plants.

The energy rejected from the condenser (outside) includes the energy from inside the building and from the compressor operation.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System ™ is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, managed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to

This will be offset by a 4.7 kW photovoltaic system, generating an average of 6,750 kWh per year — making the building net energy positive (makes more energy that it consumes), and delivering carbon - neutral operation for two people in the home.

LEED ® provides benchmarks for the design, construction and operation of a property and covers site makeup, building materials, water and energy efficiency as well as indoor environmental quality.

As we build new or renovate existing buildings across our global operations, we'll integrate renewable energy where feasible.

Without the input of fossil fuel the existing renewable energy projects could never have been built and could not be maintained in operation.