Sentences with phrase «for energy efficient buildings»

Victoria Real Estate Board (VREB) President Tony Joe says the B.C. energy minister's announcement of new financial incentives for energy efficient buildings will help...

Non-ideal market behavior can be addressed, such as with targeted incentives and mandates for energy efficient buildings, maybe with solar roofs, and public funding for some R&D as well as projects to help new industries (selected on an objective basis as those likely to be winners — ie this is not the government simply «picking» winners) scale up and gain experience to bring costs down faster.

An Integrated Design of Optimization and Physical Dynamics for Energy Efficient Buildings: A Passivity Approach T Hatanaka, X Zhang, W Shi, M Zhu and N Li IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, 2017

The first three Hubs were for energy efficient buildings, nuclear reactors, and fuels from sunlight.

Many of those efforts will be conducted at the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

The tweet points to the article with the same headline: «Das Solyndra - Modul schneidet beim Test schlecht ab» (German only, Google English) by Felicitas Pfuhl for EnBauSa GmbH, a German online magazine for energy efficient building and renovation also on twitter @enbausa!

New York Passive House (NYPH) was founded in 2010 by a group of professionals who found the need for an energy efficient built environment.

Not exact matches

Here are the energy efficiency rates your subsystems need to be operating at in order to qualify for a tax break: lighting systems need to be 25 % efficient, HVAC 15 % efficient, and the building envelope 10 % efficient.

dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

This is both a matter of more efficient electric appliances and cars, and a matter of constructing buildings in such a way that far less energy is needed for heating and cooling.

For instance, LEED certification is pursued for restaurant build - outs, site waste is recycled during construction, energy efficient equipment and lighting is specified in the design, and renewable and recycled building materials are usFor instance, LEED certification is pursued for restaurant build - outs, site waste is recycled during construction, energy efficient equipment and lighting is specified in the design, and renewable and recycled building materials are usfor restaurant build - outs, site waste is recycled during construction, energy efficient equipment and lighting is specified in the design, and renewable and recycled building materials are used.

Thoughtfully designed to foster collaboration, catalyze innovative ideas, and support efficient administration of our educational programs, the Environmental Learning Center at Drumlin Farm will be an educational model of energy - saving features and green building design, sized to fit strategic plans for growth within a modest budget.

Thoughtfully designed to foster collaboration, catalyze innovative ideas, and support efficient administration of our educational programs, this net - zero energy facility will be an educational model of energy - saving features and green building design, sized to fit strategic plans for growth within a modest budget.

Additionally, five new energy - efficient parking facilities with the capacity for 3,500 vehicles are being built in coordination with the Villages of Mineola and Westbury and the Town of Oyster Bay.

«The SUNY Poly Zen Building was designed by EYP to fulfill the vision of SUNY Poly for a living research lab to study the real - world effectiveness of materials, systems and building performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» shBuilding was designed by EYP to fulfill the vision of SUNY Poly for a living research lab to study the real - world effectiveness of materials, systems and building performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» shbuilding performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» she wrote.

This $ 11 million investment from New York State, the City of Buffalo, and Key Bank is a win - win for our community, helping to reduce blight, and build affordable housing that is environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), and Southern Tier Environments for Living (STEL) joined local partners to dedicate Evergreen Lofts, an under - utilized industrial building in Buffalo that now has 56 energy - efficient affordable apartments in an LGBTQ - friendly setting and supportive housing for formerly homeless persons with chronic medical conditions.

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 efBuilding 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 efbuilding stock more energy efficient.

In her bid for Congress, Ms. Throne - Holst, formerly a registered Independent, said that as Southampton supervisor she cut spending, reduced debt and upgraded the town's bond rating, while preserving «thousands of acres of open space» and introducing new energy - efficient building codes.

Whether that's an energy efficient building that increases productivity for tenants or an adaptive reuse project that transforms a forgotten address into an urban destination, our developments generate superior value, inspire end users, and improve the environment we live, work, and play in.

While it can be used for indoor living and commercial spaces, it can also be easily scaled up to provide air - conditioning for clusters of buildings in an energy - efficient manner.

This happens because a net - zero building may need to draw electricity from the grid to power its lights at night, for example, then returns that energy the next day, when its solar panels are most efficient.

This comprehensive assessment provides new inspiration and understanding of design principles that may lead to more efficient synthetic approaches for advanced, lightweight structural materials for transportation, buildings, batteries, and energy conversion.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

The researchers also built five gaming computers with progressively more efficient component configurations, then followed industry protocols for benchmarking performance while measuring energy use.

For many years scientists and engineers have been trying to provide low - cost solar energy by developing a cheap solar cell that is both highly efficient and at the same time simple to build, enabling it to be mass produced.

To build those machines, which are 100 times more powerful than today's top performers, researchers need to come up with a host of breakthroughs in everything from making energy efficient chips to new algorithms for programming them.

Research at the University of Pittsburgh into a more energy - efficient catalytic process to produce olefins, the building blocks for polymer production, was recently featured on the inside front cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Catalysis Science & Technology (May 21, 2017, Issue 10).

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulEnergy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulenergy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulenergy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

«For a new energy - efficient building, we weren't living up to our potential,» she said.

Society must also become much more energy - efficient, by better insulating buildings, for example.

Enter the institute's Living Building Challenge (LBC), a certification program for buildings that aren't just energy efficient but also regenerative — they produce more power than they use and promote well - being.

Cap - and - trade rewards for energy misers In public buildings especially, where users don't pay for electricity bills, it isn't unusual to see energy - saving light bulbs lighting up unattended classrooms, or efficient air conditioners chilling down empty office buildings overnight.

«It's really unfortunate,» said Jennifer Amann, buildings program director for the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

Increasing the indoor temperature set point to values in the range of 26 - 29 °C (79 - 84 °F) and simultaneously providing occupants with personally controllable fans could be a cost - effective, sustainable and energy - efficient option for providing thermal comfort in new and existing buildings in the tropics, said Schiavon.

Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.

In terms of consumer applications, high - purity graphene could also be a great option to build efficient thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electric current (and vice versa) with little energy loss — for instance, creating lightweight circuitry woven into clothes that turns body heat into charge for our smartphones.

«It's a new, potential building block for energy - efficient optoelectronics,» Li said.

The team's next step is to build a full - scale prototype battery suitable for use in energy - efficient smart homes.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

Mendoza - Cortes has been conducting clean - energy research for several years and recently theorized a way to build more efficient storage for hydrogen fuel.

mbg reported on the 2016 matchup in Levi's Stadium — the first professional football arena to be certified LEED Gold for its commitment to green building design, and last year the field was lit up by energy - efficient LED lighting.

This essentially means that your body is more efficient at utilizing carbohydrates for energy and assisting the muscle - building process, as opposed to storing them and being converted to adipose tissue.

Refurbishment of building fabric and installing new energy efficient equipment also makes a lot of sense, particularly since there a number of financing options available for schools where the repayments can be entirely offset by the savings on bills.

An EPC is required to inform potential buyers or tenants about the energy efficient nature of your building and is valid for 10 years from date of issue.

Ten tips for more energy efficient schools As well as being good financially, making school buildings more energy efficient creates an environment that is good for students and staff and good for the environment.