Sentences with phrase «existing building stock»

I appreciate that design change options are limited for existing building stock however they are only limited by our inability to properly account for the cost of emissions and channel investment into productive outcomes.

Restoration of building services in school buildings are common place and there is a complex relationship between building services, energy efficiency, air and moisture movement and the conservation of existing building stock.

However if there had been a greater focus on consequential improvements for existing building stock more could have been done.

Risa Shoup is the Associate Director of The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, and her passion is to develop unique and accessible cultural spaces from existing building stock.

By 2050, nearly 95 % of electricity would be low - carbon; 70 % of new cars would be electric; the entire existing building stock would have been retrofitted, and the CO2 intensity of the industrial sector would be 80 % lower than today.

In more mature markets, like Southern Africa, private players with property management experience and the balance sheet to invest could focus proportionally more on converting, upgrading and maintaining existing building stock, provided there is existing infrastructure close to universities in these markets.

In addition the CIOB is recommending that the framework encompasses scope for development applications for the retrofitting of the existing building stock, given the emphasis placed on this with the upcoming Green Deal and the need for energy security.

Tony Perks, Chair of the CIOB's Building Control and Standards Faculty said, «For some time the CIOB has promoted the use of consequential improvements as a means of making the existing building stock more energy efficient.

Traditional buildings make up a quarter of the UK's existing building stock and school buildings account for more than 5,000 of these in England alone.

Policymakers throughout North America can use the Zero Tool to benchmark their existing building stock in a comparable way and identify how incremental performance targets can be introduced into policies that increase city - wide energy efficiency, energy upgrades, and renewable energy programs.

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.

Only by eliminating CO2 emissions from new building operations will renewable energy additions, and existing building stock energy efficiency upgrades, begin to reduce building sector emissions overall.

Passive House reliably delivers up to approximately a 90 % reduction in heating and cooling demand and up to a 75 % reduction in overall primary energy demand when compared to our existing building stock — meant to aggressively meet the climate crisis carbon reduction imperative while making a more comfortable, healthy and affordable built environment.View

Load - bearing mass masonry buildings are a significant portion of the existing building stock in the East Coast and Midwest regions of the United States.

Passive House reliably delivers up to approximately a 90 % reduction in heating and cooling demand and up to a 75 % reduction in overall primary energy demand when compared to our existing building stock — meant to aggressively meet the climate crisis carbon reduction imperative while making a more comfortable, healthy and affordable built environment.

There are 2 huge issues facing any advanced building standard or program - existing building stock and the perception (for some reason only applying to residential buildings) that residential buildings appreciate in monetary value without needing any continual investment; second - builders have their customers» best interests in mind.

At the same time, improving the heating and electrical performance of even a portion of America's 300 billion square feet of existing building stock would significantly reduce energy consumption.

The new document incorporates the latest sustainability principles and objectives into REALpac's National Standard Office Lease, and enables landlords and tenants to set targets for energy, water, indoor air quality and recycling, and enables landlords to carry out «green» renovations to existing building stock.

It will be interesting to see how fast the sector will respond to those changes, especially when it comes to the existing building stock.