The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has announced a new $ 5million deep retrofit pilot programme for 2017 projects to upgrade
inefficient buildings to an A3 rating or better — with a particular emphasis on ventilation, airtightness, thermal bridging, interstitial condensation and preventing overheating.
While people may associate the production of greenhouse gases with polluting industries or heavy traffic, Sandals said one of the leading producers is
inefficient buildings.
World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and
inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
The Prince of Wales has criticised the «green building industry» for relying on eco-gadgets like wind turbines and solar panels to justify
inefficient buildings.
The difference in the amount of ice that melts in the code ice box compared to the Passive House box over the 18 days will show Vancouver residents and visitors how much energy and money is lost due to
inefficient buildings.
Taking money meant for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, such as solar panels for schools and modernizing
inefficient buildings, and putting it into the EPF for clean water protection, farmland preservation and recycling programs is a shell game.
This implementation plan will focus first on the largest and most
inefficient buildings, as determined by state building energy data, and perform complete overhauls on lighting fixtures and controls, heating, ventilation, air - conditioning systems, electric motors, and automated energy management systems.
The largest and most
inefficient buildings will be addressed first and undergo comprehensive whole - building improvements.
What's worse,
inefficient building materials flourish there for their cheap costs.
Examples include video conferencing instead of business travel, using public transportation instead of company cars, and upgrading
inefficient building equipment can result in significant cost savings.
Ten years ago Brussels had some of the most energy
inefficient building stock in Europe — now it boasts a groundbreaking policy that means all new buildings in the region must be passive.
An energy retrofit of an older
inefficient building can cut energy use and energy bills by 20 — 50 percent.
An energy retrofit of an older
inefficient building can cut energy use by 20 — 50 percent.
But he pointed out that adding solar panels to
an inefficient building doesn't reduce the amount of energy being used; it simply means the energy is coming from the sun instead of oil or coal.
I think under - rented situations offer the most promise for stellar returns, especially when those low rents are a direct result of poor management,
inefficient building systems, and poorly finished apartments, as those problems are generally fixable.
Not exact matches
The newly designed aircraft,
built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older,
inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.
According to Feldstein's account, he told the hotel's
building manager he could do the job cheaper than his competitors, who were hauling floodwater away with vacuum trucks — an expensive,
inefficient option.
It's
inefficient for developers to
build out «skills» for various distinct platforms, Foster says, when the apps on your phone can already do most of what you're trying to do, and could just be voice - enabled.
After
building a website for their client or themselves, business owners often find themselves frustrated because the website they
built is
inefficient.
While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is
building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using
inefficient fracked natural gas.
They are most often ambitious type - A personalities that move fast and get things done but these beneficial traits can also work against them when it come to the seemingly slow and
inefficient tasks of management, responsibility delegation and
building a desirable team culture.
Neglecting (or simply not wanting to do) this, and just focusing on link
building instead, makes any link marketing campaign
inefficient.
And
inefficient link
building campaigns make me unhappy.
To catch the runoff from the melted snow, residents had wisely
built a damn, but it was
inefficient, providing water for only a few dozen families, and stirring up strife between neighbors desperate for its live - saving waters.
Because of schedules, the mixture of part - time and full - time staff, and the scattering of staff offices all over the vast church
building, communication between and among staff was entirely ad hoc, ineffective and
inefficient.
Old and
inefficient prisons will be closed and new institutions
built where prisoners can be put more effectively to work.
Our
buildings are often old and
inefficient in how they're heated, which means a massive upgrade is needed.
According to the organization, the goal is to transform the
building from a deteriorating,
inefficient community service facility into the Lower East Side's quintessential urban community center, to serve families for the next century and beyond.
Some blame a bumbling global response and corrupt and
inefficient governments ill - equipped to handle the bolus of money that came their way; others point to new genetic evidence that shows that, in addition to spreading, artemisinin resistance is popping up independently in multiple spots across the region, dooming any attempt to
build a firewall.
It will be the most
inefficient plant ever
built because you're going to learn from it,» explained Bolsen.
Drafty
buildings,
inefficient appliances and mountains of waste will all need to be transformed to control global warming
Although the interlocking tetrahedrons of the geodesic dome have yet to replace the
inefficient rectangles of modern housing, Buckminster Fuller's legendary
building design remains the best combination of strength and lightness ever devised.
Indeed, it's possible to argue that in some ways, very tall
buildings are
inefficient.
Hormonal disbalance can be a cause for a slow metabolic rate, low levels of energy,
inefficient protein synthesis, stalled muscle
building progress and inability to recover properly.
Whilst many new public sector facilities
built in the UK already incorporate EC fans in their HVAC equipment, many older government
buildings continue to use
inefficient equipment.
He said, «The legacy of the factory model of schooling is that tens of billions of dollars are tied up in unproductive use of time and technology, in underused school
buildings, in antiquated compensation systems, and in
inefficient school - finance systems.»
A spoiler is a structure
built into the body of car, usually on the back of the car behind the rear window, which is designed to reduce wind resistance by disrupting
inefficient airflow
Some Jeep models of old depreciated horrendously thanks to their
inefficient V8 engines and clunky
build quality.
I put my
inefficient driving down to both the car's responsive electric drivetrain,
built by Tesla, and the route Mercedes - Benz chose for this press introduction of its all - new electric car.
Attempts to
build upon the Efficient Market Hypothesis have to come back to capitalization weighted allocations and special circumstances (temporarily
inefficient markets).
In spite of previous
building additions and improvements, the 62 - year - old headquarters on Macklind Avenue is code - deficient and
inefficient to operate.
Building is initially very simple, but it's very
inefficient to work alone to deliver all the ingredients and then launch the cans, and the game slowly unlocks new tools and robotic companions that can be used to automate the entire process to some extent.
Those invested in
building cheap
inefficient gear got their profit.
They can continue to
build or buy
inefficient factories, homes,
buildings, and vehicles (including used factories, equipment, and vehicles) or pass the middle income stages the US and Europe went through.
Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and
building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly
inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,
There is no doubt that the global coal fleet is changing as older
inefficient subcritical stations
built decades ago in Europe and the US are being replaced by new, highly efficient plants in emerging economies like China, South and South - east Asia.
In Britain, in the short to medium term, that would mean
building modern «dual cycle» gas power stations, which produce very clean energy and, unlike
inefficient wind turbines, do not require subsidies to be economic.
Canadian houses are generally
built without good passive design characteristics — they often have
inefficient shapes (i.e. high area to volume ratios), they're generally not oriented towards the sun or they experience significant winter shading.
Yet even the staggering list of side - deals, offsets, special auctions, and so forth that were added to the Lieberman — Warner cap - and - trade bill were not enough to
build a winning congressional coalition within this
inefficient framework.
Vast amounts of electricity storage, which is extremely expensive,
inefficient, and — in eco-conscious places like California — near - impossible to
build at scale.