Sentences with phrase «half houses the standard»

CIOB calls for clear timescale for integrating housing standards into the Building Regulations.

It's the deeply - ingrained disdain that Grenfell residents and others complain bitterly about — the dismissal of people's concerns about homelessness and housing standards, council refusals to respond to questions, and a general assumption by authorities that people who need housing help exaggerate their troubles, or even lie.

«Today the Government has recognised that a higher energy efficiency housing standard (Energy Performance Standard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achieve this.

Back in her office (informal by House standards — staffers perch on corners of haphazardly placed couches), McCarthy looks over her photo wall and points to a picture of herself at 52, at the start of her first term.

Eight years after a settlement on Westchester County's lack of compliance with affordable housing standards, County Executive Rob Astorino's administration continues to grapple with satisfying the requirements of a lingering 2009 decree being monitored by the federal government.

Although the slow process of updating housing standards may make that goal unreachable, says Springer, most of the necessary technology already exists.

The headlights have also been updated, and most trim levels house standard LED running lights and xenon headlamps.

The dash houses a standard configurable 7 - inch screen that can be used to display a wide range of information.

The huge circular center display now houses the standard 6.5 - inch infotainment screen, while the various toggles have a retro look yet control modern functions like the keyless ignition.

Coved door treatments, dressed with chrome beltlines, bookend wheel wells that house standard 19 - inch 10 - spoke alloy rims.

The top half houses the standard touchscreen, while the bottom has the controls for the stereo and ventilation.

These hark back to Audi's legendary Quattro and house standard 19 - inch wheels or optional 20 - inchers.

Seeing the new car up close also reveals other key modifications, including significantly larger wheel wells that house standard 18 - inch wheels.

Commenting on the rating Kevin Stride, vehicle line director, Jaguar XE, XF, F - PACE said, «The XE and XF were engineered without compromise: we placed just as much focus on safety as we did on dynamics, performance, refinement and efficiency, and our stringent in - house standards far exceed the requirements of legislative and consumer tests.

As a result, the latest F ‑ CELL generation complies not only with all statutory requirements, but also with the even more rigorous Mercedes - Benz in - house standards.

The top edge houses a standard - size 3.5 - mm headphone jack, a power switch for the Wi - Fi radio, an SD memory card slot, and a volume rocker switch.

Goals of the agency include providing adequate home financing systems through insurance of mortgage loans, stabilizing the mortgage market, and improving housing standards and conditions.

It regulates mortgage loan insurance, promotes an efficient home financing system, and improves housing standards and conditions across the country.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is supposed to monitor and inspect kennels to ensure that they are not violating the housing standards of the Animal Welfare Act, but kennel inspections are a low priority.

The new agreement still requires larger cages with outdoor runs for breeding dogs, and annual exams, but it gives breeders additional time to meet new housing standards — and it no longer limits breeders to no more than 50 breeding dogs.

While violations can be a misdemeanor and permits can be suspended or revoked, civil fines are generally limited to $ 500 for the first day of a violation of housing standards unless the breeder fails to comply after a corrective plan is put in place.

Rule 901:1 -6-02 establishes housing standards for dogs kept by high volume breeders.

Senate Bill 53 has been amended to eliminate some inappropriate standards, including permanent housing standards that in the original bill were applied to short - term housing environments (such as puppies in pet stores).

Unlimited domestic non-alcoholic beverages, beer, house wine by the glass and house standard bar (Full price for champagne and premium brands will apply.)

Includes unlimited non-alcoholic beverages, beer, house wine by the glass and house standard bar from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm.

The console will house the standard 500 GB hard - drive, a black and crimson red colour scheme, a gun metal grey Dualshock 4 controller and a copy of the game.

A and B houses your standard and special attacks respectively.

They are built to Passive House standards by Britco, a big west coast modular company, and designed by Peter Treuheit and Koen Drugmand of Mobius Architecture.

Developers don't spend more money than they have to on rental housing, yet here they built 85 units of what they call housing for moderate - income households to Passive House standards.

The Passive House standard, like my clothing, changes according to climate.

It has been said by some that the Passive House standard is too rigid with its «one - size - fits all energy use limits, (well suited to Germany).»

Intended as a creative retreat for a company's designers, this solid timber dome house has been built to German Passive House standards.

For someone living in New York City, perhaps the biggest benefit of building to Passive House standards is that it is incredibly quiet inside.

But I will point out that it is hard to do good traditional design to Passive House standards, because the engineering drives so much of the design.

A Certified Passive House building is one that meets the International Passive House standard as defined by the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt, Germany.»

The first blower door test result was 0.59 air changes per hour (ACH), prior to insulating the envelope, which everyone was keen to improve on as it only marginally passed the passive house standard and was prior to fitting services, which are known to increase the risk of air leaks.

The Passive House Standard is therefore an ideal basis for the Nearly Zero - Energy Building, requested in the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, which comes into effect as of 2021.

The Building Codes Division issued a Statewide Code Interpretation in 2011 to the question «Does the Passive House Standard meet the intent of the Reach Code?»

«Passive House» means a building that meets the Passive House standards as developed by the Passive House Institute, Germany, providing cost effective energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and comfort through modeling using the PHPP energy - modeling program.

«Phase two was really our test bed to see if we could get close to the passive house standard on a commercial scale,» Barry Durkan of Durkan Residential told Passive House Plus.

That's a nice way to recognize that building or renovating to Passive House standards will get you a really good house that provides the healthfulness, comfort, and low energy bills that will make the home affordable to live in.

The Brussels - Capital Region has perhaps adopted the most far - reaching implementation of Passive House standards, outside of Austria and Germany, with building regulations coming into effect at the start of 2015.

He goes on: «There was nothing technically insuperable about achieving passive house standard on this retrofit, using knowledge, materials, and techniques that are available now.

That small, even for tiny house standards!

«PHPP means the «Passive House Planning Package», an energy - modeling program developed by the Passive House Institute, Germany, used in developing buildings to the Passive House Standard.

Three of these are new four - bedroom terraced houses, built to the passive house standard, and the first new social housing built by Lambeth council for ten years.

It's sometimes said to be hard — perhaps too hard — to get a small house to meet the passive house standard.

A diagnostic initial blower door test, done when the external envelope was completed on one of the development's show houses, took place on December 12 and delivered a worldbeating result of 0.16 air changes per hour (ACH), well inside the passive house standard of 0.6 ACH and the best result this magazine has ever noted for a masonry building.

Taking all of these factors together, very low U-values needed to be achieved in the walls, floor and roof in order to reach the passive house standard.

Building the third scheme to the passive house standard has only required a few tweaks to the design of phase two — including the selection of MVHR over DCV, an upgrade from double to triple glazing, and a 40 mm increase in external insulation to the walls, which are all built from single leaf nine inch hollow blocks.