Sentences with phrase «new building retrofits»

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Retrofitting those for export purposes isn't exactly a piece of cake, but it's faster and cheaper than building new terminals from the ground up, as B.C. has to do.

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Enhanced building codes and standards, combined with incentives for «green retrofits» and new approaches to land - use planning, can significantly enhance energy efficiency.

In this environment, the railcar manufacturers should be kept busy retrofitting existing equipment and building new tank cars.

«New restaurants will be built with that in mind and the franchise will provide a retrofitting package to existing Sonny's operations.»

Whether you are building a new plant or retrofitting an existing facility rely on Emmeti's over 32 years of experience in the industry to bring you innovative new equipment, with no proprietary parts, to improve your plant efficiency, reduce labor costs and add more profitability to your bottom line.

«Tackling parts of the system in isolation, for example improving electricity network management and retrofitting buildings, will help, but the real challenge for engineers will be to find new ways to plan and manage the integrated system.

Just to add more pressure to the situation U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters in Buffalo Monday he'd like a plan to either retrofit the current stadium in Orchard Park or build a new stadium in place by the time a new owner is announced.

To help mitigate rising utility costs and preserve affordability, the City will launch a new program to targeting mid-size and small buildings — in concert with local utilities and existing subsidy programs — to encourage energy and water - use retrofits in exchange for affordability commitments from building owners.

In her new role, Camilo will oversee city agencies» workforce needs, manage the city's public buildings and oversee de Blasio's plan to retrofit every public building by 2025.

Wisconsin's troubled youth prison would close by mid-2020 and its inmates would move into new or retrofitted prison that could be built around the state, under a bipartisan bill released on Tuesday.

He said his plan to do this is to get abandoned plants and buildings retrofitted for new industries.

Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared Saturday with Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, to announce a memorandum of understanding between the city and the union to begin training as many as 3,000 workers to perform retrofits on city buildings.

But why build a new tourist attraction when there are derelict structures just begging for a retrofit?

Instead of building a new zero - emission coal - fired power plant in Illinois, the Obama administration will retrofit an old plant instead

The work has led to new building standards and better ways to build or retrofit everything from wharves to older concrete buildings.

Despite efforts to retrofit power poles and to build new poles to avian - friendly standards, electrocution remains a substantial cause of death for the golden eagle.

Although Polk does not capture carbon dioxide (it still goes up the exhaust stack, at a rate of 5,000 tons a day), it could easily be retrofitted to do so; new IGCC plants could have the capacity built in.

This resource allows testing of innovative technologies and designs for seismic safety of new buildings and retrofitting techniques for existing structures.

But before it can build new fat - burning mitochondria and retrofit the existing ones to take advantage of all the free fatty acids you have at your disposal, your body will rely on ketones for its energy.

[1] Of Jacob and Rockoff's proposals, this third idea seems particularly actionable: New buildings need not be built or retrofitted, and the nature of teachers» jobs would not appreciably change.

Its systems are tried and tested having third party certification from the British Board of Agrément (BBA) and have been installed on a range of school projects including new build, modular construction and retrofit.

Faced with such figures, education providers and local authorities are increasingly looking for innovative ways to upgrade their existing facilities — whether that is through refurbishment and retrofit of current buildings or by constructing new classrooms and amenities.

Building the Perfect School Del Stover What to consider when planning for new or retrofitted school buildings

General Motors also announced it would be throwing $ 560 million into its Ingersoll, Ontario plant to retrofit it to build the new Chevrolet Equinox.

The Reachers, employees of the Reach Corp, were promised passage on this ship if they retrofitted for the long journey to New Eden, and as a reward for their role building the space elevators, stations, and ships that made the Paradisi Project possible, but when the time comes for their journey to New Eden, they face nothing but betrayal.

It was difficult to find undeveloped land in a central area, and we decided to look for an existing building that could be retrofitted — generally more cost - effective than new construction.

2002 Building Structures, PS1, Long Island City Brewster Project, curated by Mari Spirito, Brewster NY Second Sight: Hunter College MFA Alumni Exhibition 1991 — 2001, Hunter College Time Square Gallery, NY Lucky DeBellevue, Wade Guyton, Richard Hawkins, Jeff Ono, PHIL, Los Angeles Retrofit, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Lombard - Freid Gallery, New York City

On Italy: what a shame that people (including Berlusconi) are distracted by the purported earthquake prediction and therefore don't focus on the need of the Italian government to identify and retrofit vulnerable existing schools and hospitals and to insure that new schools and hospitals are built according to code.

Retrofit of older stuctures, new green buildings, and increased energy efficinecy can do a lot to reduce energy demands and the consequent carbon dioxide emissions.

China's seismic standards for new buildings are more robust than those in the United States, he said, but there is no requirement for retrofitting older buildings, and simply no money or technical capacity to do so in remote and relatively poor regions like those hard hit this week.

One step in the right direction that Indian leaders could take today is to adopt mandatory energy efficiency codes for new buildings and major retrofits.

Tight standards for new buildings, and a 30 - 40 year retrofit program for old buildings, which will combine insulation, switching to heat pumps, adding geothermal, etc. 3) Carbon neutral vehicles.

Who puts up the money to retrofit buildings when, as New York City wrote in its energy plan, «Energy use in buildings accounts for 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 percent of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here today.»

Our big step in building: Put a gray water recovery system in every new house and retrofit any house where the owner wishes to have a lawn irrigation system.

As your administration found, for instance, 80 percent of the buildings in New York City today will still be in use in 2050, meaning that a push for energy thrift is largely one of retrofitting.

Develop new techniques for evaluating and retrofitting existing buildings to better withstand earthquakes.

Building codes that require this in new buildings and assistance in retrofitting existing buildings are what is needed rather than more research into insulation.

Despite all these benefits, only a few cities in the U.S. provide incentives for developers and building owners to install green roofs, whether in new developments or as part of building retrofitting projects.

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«With the very short time to get on to site, it was really good to have the 15:40 structure in place, to take on the construction designs for the retrofit and new build sides respectively,» Fran Bradshaw says.

Often retrofits of measures like wall insulation are cost prohibitive for existing buildings but inexpensive for new...

Tilson Group has handled some amazing green roof projects, including the US Coast Guard headquarters, the City Center DC project, Park Van Ness — a new condominium complex in DC, and a retrofit green roof on the International Monetary Fund building.

The de Blasio administration's new «retrofit accelerator» aims to walk building owners through the complex landscape of energy - efficiency upgrades.

Building Science Corporation seeks to further the energy efficiency market for cold climate, New England area retrofits by supporting projects based on solid building science fundamentals and verified implemeBuilding Science Corporation seeks to further the energy efficiency market for cold climate, New England area retrofits by supporting projects based on solid building science fundamentals and verified implemebuilding science fundamentals and verified implementation.

High performance enclosure retrofit can position an existing building to perform at the level of best - in - class new construction.

Building Science Corporation (BSC) seeks to further the energy efficiency market for cold climate, New England area retrofits by supporting projects based on solid building science fundamentals and verified implemeBuilding Science Corporation (BSC) seeks to further the energy efficiency market for cold climate, New England area retrofits by supporting projects based on solid building science fundamentals and verified implemebuilding science fundamentals and verified implementation.

School construction completed in 2007 — including new buildings, additions to existing buildings, and major retrofit of existing buildings — totaled almost $ 20.8 B, a significant increase over the $ 20.1 B spent on construction completed in 2006.

However, existing buildings going through a major retrofit provide an opportunity, making new square footage available.

In OECD countries, and especially in many emerging economies, where coal - fired power generation is set to expand in the near future, new - build coal ‑ fired power units should aim for best available efficiencies (currently, through application of supercritical or ultra-supercritical technologies), where feasible, and be designed in view of potential future CCS retrofits, if they are not equipped initially with CCS.