Sentences with phrase «building shell»

To maximize the energy savings and minimize consumption to the lowest level; the construction will be using a super insulated building shell.

That's enough to cause serious damage to animals that depend on building shells, and to predators that eat those animals.

In new modular homes, tight building shells reduce the need for heating and cooling.

We also build shells for those of you who have a DIY itch and just need a leg - up to get started.

This is particularly important for loft or condo conversions — residential units constructed inside an existing building shell.

We also build shells up to 14 × 36.

They are doing basically the same thing we are, having a builder build the shell and doing all the finish work themselves.

The intention of this project is to maximize the energy savings and minimize consumption to the lowest level, utilizing a super insulated building shell.

They can't build shells from bicarbonates.

These animals can't build shells from bicarbonates.

The microscopic animals build shells of calcium carbonate out of minerals in seawater — a process that is affected by the water's relative pH (acidity), which is, in turn controlled by the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Marine organisms that build their shells out of calcite, in contrast, might not begin dissolving until the end of the century.12

That's why they're insisting Google rewrite Chrome from scratch, basically just building a shell around Microsoft Edge.

Earlier this year, researchers reported that these deepwater foraminifera build their shells with materials that sink from overlying water.

Pteropods — tiny swimming Arctic sea snails — have difficulty building their shells at CO2 levels very close to the... Continue reading →

The researchers found that modern G. bulloides could not build shells as large as the ones their ancestors formed as recently as century ago.

How about demonstrating and then publicizing how to cost - effectively retrofit a 19th century building with the latest in energy efficient building shell, HVAC, and appliances?

Pteropods — tiny swimming Arctic sea snails — have difficulty building their shells at CO2 levels very close to the present ones.

These new homes consumed 21 % less energy for space heating on average than older homes (see graph), which is mainly because of increased efficiency in the form of heating equipment and better building shells built to more demanding energy codes.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

The researchers found that young oysters and mussels build their shells within 48 hours to successfully begin feeding at a rate fast enough to survive, and that the rate of shell - building required significant energy expenditures.

Corals and marine organisms that build shells rely on free carbonate for raw material.

But new research reveals that as oysters build their shells they get help from a surprising source: their blood cells.

Because the tiny creatures build their shells from materials in seawater, their calcium carbonate homes reflect the ratio of the two isotopes in the seas of that time.

Aquatic organisms called diatoms build their shells with it.

Previous studies have shown that marine animals like corals, oysters and sea urchins have a hard time building their shells and skeletons in more acidic water.

Similar to space heating, these gains were likely moderated by increases in efficiency of cooling equipment and improved building shells, but air conditioning was not the only end use that was higher in newer homes.

Dwellings constructed to the standard maintain high indoor air quality while reducing space heating energy needs up to 90 percent compared to the existing building stock, by incorporating high levels of insulation and efficient heat - recovery ventilation and achieving a virtually airtight building shell.

Energy attributes are considered as a whole for each project, selecting mechanical systems and renewable energy to match building shell components.

We draw our plans to help owner builders and do - it - yourselfers build the shell of their tiny house.

He explains that because SIPs are made in a factory with a high degree of precision and arrive on site as complete wall units already insulated and clad, there's far less scope for leaks and gaps to creep in and compromise the performance of the finished building shell.

And by searching online for a Maine life insurance quote, you can build that shell without much investment.

But in sea water, the gas reacts to produce carbonic acid - a threat for organisms building their shells and skeletons from calcium carbonate.

The ocean is great at soaking up greenhouse gases, but this comes at a cost to organisms that build shells out of calcium carbonate (CaCO3, the same chemical that makes up chalk).

Back in the 1960s, for example, the physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that advanced civilizations would build shells around their suns to trap and utilize every bit of energy.

This is a beautifully crafted post-and-beam home by GreenHome Construction featuring an Insulated Concrete Form wall system, tight building shell, living roofs and a 3 - kilowatt solar system.

Both facilities will utilize energy efficient measures including LED lighting, insulated building shells, and modern heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment.

«Building shells with a diameter of 50 meters is no problem with this technique,» says Johann Kollegger.

If they don't build their shell, they starve,» Suatoni said.

Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

Bronte Tilbrook at CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, measured the concentration of aragonite — a form of calcium carbonate used by some creatures to build shells — at over 200 locations on the reef.

Image of fresh Pacific oyster courtesy of © Guofan Zhang, photo by Tao Liu The world of the mollusk genome is now our oyster, as researchers have now sequenced the genetic code of this hearty (and delicious) shellfish, revealing it to be even more complex and adaptable than previously imagined.The new genome provides insights how oysters manage to cope with a dynamic habitat and how they build their shells.

Will Howard of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart has shown that some species of coral have a similar sensitivity to acidification as foraminifera in parts of the Southern Ocean, which are struggling to build their shells.

Once dissolved, the gas reacts with carbonate to form bicarbonate, stripping seawater of the compound that many marine organisms including coral, shrimp and crabs need to build their shells or skeletons.

In waters depleted of carbonate ions, young oysters must expend more energy to build their shell and may not survive.

Aragonite is a calcium carbonate mineral that shellfish use to build their shells.