Sentences with phrase «impacts than new construction»

They have demonstrated that building reuse almost always yields fewer environmental impacts than new construction when comparing buildings of similar size and functionality.

Not exact matches

But, because newer solar panels have a smaller adverse environmental impact than older models and as their time of operation increases to mitigate the construction effects, some scientists believe the solar industry could develop a net positive environmental impact by 2018.

The construction of higher - resolution scenarios (now often finer than 50 km), has encouraged new types of impact studies.

For instance, if you use the economic impact calculator to determine how 100 new apartments would stimulate Pennsylvania's economy, you'd quickly see it would boost that state's bottom line by more than $ 24 million, in combined new construction, operations and resident spending.

New U.S. hotel construction may have a slight impact on some markets, Nichols says, as more than 110,000 rooms are scheduled for completion in 2016, and several thousand additional rooms are in the final phase before groundbreaking.