Sentences with phrase «maintain habitable»

Landlords have a responsibility to maintain a habitable environment in a residential property in compliance with local housing codes.
Really well - insulated buildings will maintain the habitable conditions much longer than conventional buildings — perhaps even indefinitely.
However buildings that require no energy to maintain habitable temperatures can safely provide sheltering in place year round.
Designing highly energy - efficient buildings is the best way to provide passive survivability, which RDI defines as ensuring that buildings will maintain habitable conditions should they lose power.
One which we just simply have to contain and reverse in the long term to maintain a habitable planet.
A home incorporating such features will maintain habitable temperatures in both simmer and winter.
After losing 80 % of the world's natural and intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.
Stars slightly cooler than the sun could maintain habitable conditions for longer periods of time, due to the slower rate of water loss.
«Our results show that Earth has had a moderate temperature through virtually all of its history, and that is attributable to weathering feedbacks — they do a good job at maintaining a habitable climate,» said first author Joshua Krissansen - Totton, a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences.
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo maintains the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog

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If planets like of GJ 1132b can maintain an atmosphere for several billion years, they said, it indicates that such worlds could potentially be habitable.
For those that subscribe to the theory of the living earth, it is the prokaryotes that maintain the homeostasis of the earth, rendering the biosphere habitable for all other life.
If the landlord materially fails to comply with their obligations to maintain safe and habitable premises with a health or safety impact, the tenant may terminate the lease on written notice.
But the monthly fees are going to be extraordinary - all that extra surface to maintain (and radiate heat), acres of terrace on top of habitable space, everything you are taught in architecture school and in the harder school of actually building things that you shouldn't do.
[2] Despite its challenges and downsides, climate geoengineering may be the best chance we have for maintaining a planet that is habitable for humans and the other creatures who are our neighbors.
These «greenhouse gases» trap enough of earth's heat to maintain the Earth's habitable climate of an average of 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit today, according to NASA.
I have always maintained that the human race would not have evolved as we have if there were no homeostatic mechanisms to avoid extremes of weather in the habitable areas of Earth.
Under most state laws, that includes an» implied warranty of habitability,» meaning the landlord is not only required to deliver the property to the tenant in a habitable condition, but also maintain the property as such throughout the duration of the tenant's lease.
The landlord needs to maintain the home in a habitable condition, as well.
As a landlord, you're responsible for maintaining your properties to be habitable according to specific housing laws.
By law, owners are required to maintain their property in a «habitable» condition for their tenants at all times.
Fannie Mae states that landlords should maintain the property in a «habitable» condition.
Becoming A Landlord This realistic Fannie Mae guide to investing in real estate property and becoming a landlord covers topics like the advantages and disadvantages of owning property, maintaining a «habitable» residence, and finding reliable tenants.
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