Sentences with phrase «green building activities»

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While their parents spent free time in activities like a neighborhood game of tag, building forts, or climbing trees, the modern child's day includes far more screen time than green time.

Then two years ago, then - chancellor George Osborne provided funding for at least a quarter of schools to run longer school days to allow extracurricular activities, though this was scrapped in favour of Justine Greening's capital scheme to build new sports facilities.

These include dozens of activities, among them re-use of historic materials, landscape restoration with native plants, and use of green building elements.

«My solution was a park - like view with a bright sun and stand of trees to bring light and green space to the location while at the same time honoring the mission of the building as the hub of artistic activity in Chicago.

To oversee, structure, and support the activities of CPR — Center for Performance Research, a L.E.E.D. - certified green building in Brooklyn, of which Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation is a founding partner.

Community grants help link forests and people by assisting local communities through forest education programs, and supporting green building projects for low - income families, and other activities that underscore the links between people and their environment.

For a number of years I have been an advocate for green building and sustainable design through my structural engineering practice as well as volunteer activities.

International LCA Initiatives Athena is a valued contributor to international LCA activities, playing an active role in the Sustainable Building Challenge, a continuation of the Green Building Challenge that since 1996 has engaged over 75 teams in project assessments of high performance buildings.

In providing assistance under this paragraph, the Secretary shall give more preference to activities based on the extent to which the activities will result in compliance with the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards, and the green building standards, under section 284 (b) of this subtitle.

-- In selecting activities to be funded with amounts from a grant under this section, a grantee shall give more preference to activities based on the extent to which the activities will result in compliance by the housing with the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards, and the green building standards, under section 284 (b) of such Act.

Charles Feinstein EAP Sector Manager, Energy and Water PSLO Seminar November 6, 2013 Agenda Focal areas Institutional capacity building and policy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supporting T&D /

This policy document presents UNEP's past, present and future activities in the area of climate change and shows how the Programme is building partnerships with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector and other United Nations entities to foster a Green Economy.

The flurry of Green Home Building activity over the past couple of years has been really interesting to follow.

UHI can affect the climatic comfort of the urban population, potentially related to health, labour productivity and leisure activities; there are also economic effects, such as the additional cost of climate control within buildings, and environmental effects, such as the formation of smog in cities and the degradation of green spaces.

van den Berg, M.M.H.E., Maas, J. et al. (2016) Autonomic Nervous System Responses to Viewing Green and Built Settings: Differentiating Between Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Activity.

With the proliferation of new green products and technologies, a greater likelihood of patent infringement activity exists on green building projects.

«Our green building program is not really a separate activity from our overall approach to the business.