Sentences with phrase «natural ventilation buildings»

The U.S. government already has had success with new natural ventilation buildings, including the GSA office building in San Francisco, California, and new space for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

Not exact matches

The terminal was built with many sustainable features, including natural skylights, an innovative air displacement ventilation system, and zero - waste garbage cans.

Tony Prescott Biomimetic Lessons for Natural Ventilation of Buildings.

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In addition to providing a healthy environment, the natural ventilation combines with the use of warming outside light to reduce the building's energy costs by at least 25 percent.

The building has high levels of natural lighting, natural ventilation and a highly insulated façade designed to minimise energy consumption.

Progress in schools In the last decade there have been some improvements in the application of ergonomic principles in schools, mainly to the buildings themselves, such as increasing circulation space, or improving ventilation and natural lighting.

The building is well insulated with good levels of daylight and provided with natural ventilation.

The building promotes sustainability, achieved through the use of natural ventilation and the provision of photovoltaics to generate renewable electricity.

The building has been designed to maximise natural daylight and ventilation for a healthy internal environment.

Despite the complexities of the site the building benefits from renewable energy techniques, natural daylighting and passive ventilation to achieve BREEAM Very Good.

When staff know how to use systems or understand how the natural ventilation is supposed to work then they can improve the overall efficiency of the building by adhering to instructions.

The Green Hub is a «green» building fitted with rainwater harvesting tanks, solar panels and natural lighting and ventilation.

The drive to reduce the reliance on air - conditioning (although still optional) has meant that all meeting rooms are purpose built to encourage a cool natural flow of air, meaning excellent cross ventilation and copious natural light.

Some of those elements include: - Light - colored roofing that reflects heat and saves energy; - 70 percent ENERGY STAR ® certified appliances including refrigerators, TVs, computers and kitchen equipment; - Water - efficient toilets and aerated bathroom faucets; - 10 percent of the building materials used contain recycled content; - «On Demand» ventilation that provides fresh air for occupied spaces without wasting energy on unoccupied areas of the property; - LED lighting - controls that turn off the lights; - Incorporates high - tech daylight sensors to reduce electrical lighting with natural sunlight and - Uses renewable energy sources such as solar or wind.

And this building which will have rooftop gardens, water heated by solar, rainwater collection, natural light and ventilation and environmentally sensitive building materials will be deep in the heart of West Harlem (on 150th Street and Convent, for all you New Yorkers).

Here architectural fissures split the building's façade, «to provide maximum solar access to be [d] rooms as well as natural ventilation throughout the building.

Although not sold as green, the building's recycled structure, wonderful natural lightning and ventilation, and adaptable spaces are solid proof of good architecture.

I became a bit obsessed with the Terry Thomas Building, as perhaps the best example of how you design a new building to work like an old building, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional bBuilding, as perhaps the best example of how you design a new building to work like an old building, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional bbuilding to work like an old building, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional bbuilding, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional bbuilding with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional buildingbuilding.

It's not clear how the building will achieve the «efficient lighting, heating, and cooling» it says it will have, but for the pictures it's pretty obvious the presence of beautiful natural light and ventilation.

For instance, the study does not investigate changing the shape of the building, its orientation or form; redistributing windows or using different windows to take advantage of natural light for daylighting or sunlight for heating (office buildings are day - use facilities); shading the glass in summertime to reduce the need for air - conditioning; using operable windows for ventilation (not even in Newport Beach, with its beautiful year - round climate); or using low - e glazing.

At that time, there were major advances in Building Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name jusBuilding Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name jusbuilding simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name just a few.

I've been meaning to post something about the absurdity of the almost religious devotion some people have to «natural» ventilation in a building.

Investigating natural ventilation potentials across the globe: Regional and climatic variations Y Chen, Z Tong and A Malkawi Building and Environment, 2017

As noted by the article, the project hopes to achieve multiple sustainability goals — including entirely natural lighting, ventilation, and zero emissions — and could provide a repeatable checklist for similar retrofits of small - scale, residential buildings throughout the United States.

Predicting the Effectiveness of Wind - Driven Natural Ventilation Strategy For Interactive Building Design N Yoon and A Malkawi 15th Conf.

Hybrid ventilation is a building ventilation system that integrates natural (i.e. passive) and mechanical (i.e. active) ventilation components to create an high efficiency and healthy ventilation system for a building.

But how does natural ventilation fare when subjected to the same degree of scrutiny, and can it work in low energy buildings?

Vents located in the lobby skylight and under built - in exterior window seats assure adequate air movement and natural ventilation throughout the lobby area.

Strategies such as passive heating and cooling, natural ventilation, and high - efficiency HVAC systems partnered with smart controls further reduce a building's energy use.

It acts as a key component of the building's natural ventilation system, which harnesses the aerodynamics of river breezes for zero - cost cooling.

The building optimizes the workplace environment through efficient floor plates and core layout, natural ventilation, access to the outdoors through a series of exterior terraces, and a high - performance window glazing system that maximizes views and transparency while minimizing heat gain.

And since many older structures were designed to take full advantage of natural light and ventilation, they have built - in energy efficiency missing in much new development.

It is a traditional way of building that creates narrow wings to maximize natural light and ventilation, around a courtyard that creates a stack effect.

I have concentrated on the passive features of the building, the shape, the landscaping and natural ventilation, but it also has its share of the high - tech green gizmo features too, like these evacuated tube solar water heaters on the roof.

Promising to explore novel concepts such as inflatable air bags as wind fins to improve ventilation and modify wind loads; natural ventilation of the toilet areas hung on the edges of the building; and water collection scallops along the sides of the building, this is one skyscraper to watch.

Proper building orientation, daylighting, natural ventilation, sunshades, and thermal mass reduced overall energy use and allowed for smaller mechanical systems.

Big Steps In Building: Make Natural Ventilation Mandatory

It is another of what I call dumb buildings, too: «Within the building, IFAW chose to incorporate practical, straightforward, low - tech, low - cost strategies for sustainable design such as siting, orientation, natural daylighting and ventilation, and high - efficiency mechanical systems.»

Julia Gersovitz of Montreal's FGMAA Architects made the point: Buildings used to look like alphabets, to minimize the distance to an exterior wall and maximize natural light and ventilation.

From an exergy efficiency perspective, building technologies which rely on solar, wind and biomass energy sources, coupled to thermally efficient envelopes, appropriate fenestration strategies [where we put what kind and size of windows] and natural ventilation / cooling are truly more elegant than «cutting butter with a chainsaw.»

Parking is under the building to minimize site disruption, and the building is designed to maximize natural ventilation and daylighting.

That's why I have written Big Steps In Building: Make Natural Ventilation Mandatory and Stop Ignoring Orientation And Sun Control and Stop With the Glass Façades Already.

Buildings designed before the widespread use of electricity feature transoms, high ceilings, and big, operable windows for natural light and ventilation, as well as shaded porches, overhanging eaves and other features to reduce solar gain.

Courtyards with Natural Cross Ventilation: Tropical and humid environments have effectively been using courtyards for millennia to ventilate, heat and cool buildings.

It is full of technologies: a computer - operated ventilation system operates motorized awning windows and dormer windows to capture the prevailing breezes, automatically shifting the building between natural ventilation, air conditioning and heating.

The building will be one of the first to implement a new Verification Protocol for Engineered Natural Ventilation Systems in Equatorial Climates, developed by Bogotá - based environmental engineering consultants (and design team members) for the Colombia Green Building Council to standardize the use of natural ventilation as a LEED energy effectiveness sbuilding will be one of the first to implement a new Verification Protocol for Engineered Natural Ventilation Systems in Equatorial Climates, developed by Bogotá - based environmental engineering consultants (and design team members) for the Colombia Green Building Council to standardize the use of natural ventilation as a LEED energy effectiveness stNatural Ventilation Systems in Equatorial Climates, developed by Bogotá - based environmental engineering consultants (and design team members) for the Colombia Green Building Council to standardize the use of natural ventilation as a LEED energy effectivenesVentilation Systems in Equatorial Climates, developed by Bogotá - based environmental engineering consultants (and design team members) for the Colombia Green Building Council to standardize the use of natural ventilation as a LEED energy effectiveness sBuilding Council to standardize the use of natural ventilation as a LEED energy effectiveness stnatural ventilation as a LEED energy effectivenesventilation as a LEED energy effectiveness strategy.

Only three types of apartments populate the buildings, all of them with ample spaces, windows in all its fronts, and natural ventilation.

We give so much coverage to Australian architects who take advantage of the glorious climate; I noted that «if I lived there, I suspect I wouldn't want to be bottled in like this, and prefer Andrew Maynard's approach to green building where you do design for natural ventilation and orientation, and blur the line between inside and outside.»

I meant it as a compliment; we need more dumb buildings that work like buildings used to, with natural light and ventilation, and without what Donovan Rypkema calls «green thingies» - expensive new technologies when older, simpler methods are more appropriate.