Sentences with phrase «by building envelope»
Real estate boards in Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Victoria, the areas most affected by building envelope failure, have also published educational materials for their member Realtors.
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By providing a tasting to families before the start of the school year, the district hopes to build support for the «envelope - pushing» items and win over even the pickiest elementary and middle school students, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director.
Key to the renovations, though less visible by design, are alterations that provide increased capacity for large - scale artworks and exhibitions, including enlarged access panels, a high - capacity scissor lift, environmental control upgrades, and improvements to the building envelope.
The building envelope is mostly made of large glass windows in order to create a relationship between artworks and landscape; a dialogue further reinforced by the addition of a narrow winter garden which borders the exhibition galleries.
Georgii Zelma editorial print for Attack on Building by the 13th Radishchev Division, Stalingrad, November 1942 20th Century November 1942 Paper Gelatin Silver Print Ink Envelope Graphite Pencil
Georgii Zelma editorial print for Attack on Building by the 13th Radishchev Division, Stalingrad, November 1942 November 1942 20th Century Gelatin Silver Print Envelope
The testing assessed thermal insulation quality by infrared imaging, building envelope and air distribution system air - tightness by fan pressurization and tracer gas, pressure effects inside the house due to interactions of the air distribution system, calculated versus measured building load coefficients by co-heating, and building thermal decay by cool - down.
We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.
Energy consumption is reduced by the high performance building envelope, high efficiency mechanical systems, and then offset with renewable energy.
There is great interest in durability by the international building research community, predominantly in the materials and assemblies comprising building envelopes.
«For example in 2012 our Group Headquarters in Kingscourt Ireland achieved Net Zero Energy through extensive retrofit of the existing building by incorporating our high performance building envelope, rooftop solar PV and LED lighting system.
The team of students constructed a building envelope that slows the rate of heat energy transmission by incorporating passive and active systems.
This was done for TC 4.4 Building Materials and Building Envelope Performance by Mark Lawton's team at Morrison Hershield.
Also, while stating that commissioning is not just testing but entails ``... involvement way before that,» alluding to the «upstream» quality concepts first introduced by W. Edwards Deming in the 1950s, the article only goes so far in this instance and several others in elucidating and capitalizing on those powerful ideas, emphasizing them as a «must» only for the building envelope.
Wherever possible, the restoration of old buildings should be accompanied by energy - efficiency improvements to the building envelope.
With a super insulated building envelope and triple - pane windows, the new home outperforms the old one by a huge margin in terms of comfort and energy consumption.
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.
The demand controlled ventilation system will be replaced by MVHR, the windows will be upgraded to triple - glazed while the building envelope will need a slight increase in insulation levels — with 40 mm more Rockwool for the external insulation system.
Morehead's design called for the integration of the structural components into the overall building envelope, but doing this without having to battle with unforeseen thermal bridges required some innovative work by structural engineer, Conor Coburn.
Building designs under the solar envelope are characterised by roof terraces, courtyards and clerestories.
A new home built with an energy efficient building envelope can pretty easily become a net zero home by adding on PV.
It achieves significant energy savings by creating a superinsulated building envelope that minimizes heat loss and prevents air leakage.
By using offsite timber cassettes, the building could be wrapped considerably faster than projects using traditional construction methods of this size without a reduction in of the external envelope.
The team insulated the entire building envelope with EPS, and airtightness is provided by the OSB along with Siga tapes and membranes.
The RTA and municipal bylaws require landlords to remediate mould caused by a tenant's actions, even though it's not caused by the building's envelope.
Common examples of material latent defects could include the fact that the basement leaks when it rains, structural damage to the property, failure of the building's envelope (water ingress), underground storage tanks located on the property, problems with the potability / quantity of drinking water and any un-remediated damage caused by the illegal use of the property, e.g. marijuana grow operation.