Sentences with phrase «drafty building»

Drafty buildings, inefficient appliances and mountains of waste will all need to be transformed to control global warming

The aim is to get people doing the small things — planting trees, installing solar water heaters, fixing drafty buildings, calling elected officials — that can provide the foundation for a long - term shift in habits and plans related to limiting human - driven global warming.

Not exact matches

In reality, that gets thrown off by everything: sun - drenched picture windows, drafty stairwells, even computer servers create problematic microclimates, confesses Samantha Gal, a harried central dispatcher who works for a major building manager in downtown Vancouver.

Because of the delays in building the $ 153 million Ice Palace, Tampa Bay played its inaugural season at Expo Hall, a drafty 10,400 - seat barn on the grounds of the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.

Here is a good story for you so Sunday at church I am walking into the building, and things felt a little extra drafty.

The building also gets drafty and chilly during winter.

In so doing, they created facilities that generate carbon - free power, then squander that energy in drafty and poorly insulated buildings.

I've rented in a very similar triple decker and a converted multifamily built in 1820, both were drafty which had their inconveniences on the stormiest of nights, but I never felt like I had to move out to find an easier to heat place.

The retrofitting that had so thoroughly sealed the building «helped cut energy costs but also trapped humidity inside that would otherwise have dried out in drafty air.

2 Deck your doors Now's the perfect time to replace that drafty front door with something new and inviting — and with a built - in window light, perhaps.