Sentences with phrase «of building occupants»

As part of their duties, building managers oversee the safety of building occupants, ensuring emergency exit signs are visible and building is free of hazard.

Respond to intrusion - detection systems and fire alarms; notify appropriate party and take measures to ensure safety of building occupants

Residential energy efficiency has been shown to improve the overall mental and physical health, including asthma, of building occupants.

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) deals with the content of interior air that could affect health and comfort of building occupants.

Not exact matches

According to Marcus, a 21 - year - old occupant of the Covenant House, «Covenant House is like a foundation because you can build something for yourself, you have the time and the resources to make it happen.»

May said she would unleash an «army of carpenters» to retrofit buildings that leak warm air in the winter, and require occupants to blast their air conditioners in the summer.

A subterranean tunnel (pictured at lower right) leads up the mountainside to a «Graubünder barn» (a traditional barn built in the traditional style of the region, pictured at lower left), should an undetected escape become necessary, or perhaps if the occupants need access to safely stowed cows to handcraft some Swiss cheese.

REALTORS ® bring together developers, landlords and tenants to build premises that are specific to the needs of the occupant, with the terms and conditions to either buy or lease negotiated in advance of construction.

But most of it has been tidied away, along with the crumbling and rather alarming tombs in the grass around the building, which always seemed about to open and disclose their shrouded occupants, climbing out into the modern day like a Stanley Spencer resurrection.

In a special irony, modernist architects were commissioned to build churches (some of which were deemed unusable by their intended occupants), and to disfigure older churches through so - called «renovation».

The building's four occupants were already outside the older 2 - story home in the 4200 block of Route 83 when firefighters got there at 9:20 p.m., according to a statement from the Long Grove Fire Protection District.

«In an intelligent building a range of systems will be integrated to improve the efficiency of the building's operations, particularly its utility consumption, and to improve the occupants» enjoyment of the accommodation.

The statement, signed by General Akotebe Darikoro, Commander, General Duties; General Torunanaowei Latei, Creeks Network Coordinator; General Agbakakuro Owei - Tauro, Pipelines Bleeding Expert; and General Pulokiri Ebiladei, Intelligence Bureau, said the decision to notify the occupants of the buildings to vacate them was because the aim of their struggle was not to destroy lives.

The Institute has strongly encouraged the use of regularly updated user guides for building occupants as a means of tackling this gap and to advise users on how best to operate low carbon technologies in buildings.

The statement read, «For the umpteenth time, we like to clarify that the proposed plan of the immediate past administration to build a new official residence for the occupant of the Office of the Vice President, including the controversial gatehouse preceded this administration.

But occupants of some buildings within the planned district expressed many reservations.

Rent - regulated tenants make up 60 percent of The 160 West 97th Street building's occupants, and Public Advocate Letitia James filed a complaint with the New york State Human Rights Division last month.

They were convinced, the employee is an illegal occupant of the building.

Then, in the afternoon of April 27, the officials sent one person from each apartment building to hand out flyers and iodine pills to occupants.

But to one side of the site, in a clearing, was a single, carefully constructed tomb, built for a single occupant — perhaps the tomb of a leader or of a revered wise man.

Kingma noted that many efficiency upgrades fall short of their predicted benefits because occupants undermine the performance of the building, whether it's using space heaters during the summer or opening a window to let out excess heat in the winter (ClimateWire, Dec. 22, 2014).

The third question, says study co-author Erica Kuligowski, includes a specialized and dedicated egress system known as an occupant evacuation elevator (OEE) that has great potential for getting people with mobility impairments out of a building safely and quickly, without the assistance of others, and without having to leave behind their mobility devices (such as scooters, walkers and wheelchairs).

Existing steel structures in buildings are usually coated with a fire - retardant layer to shield the bare metal from damage by fire and meet the fire protection standard of two hours — aimed at giving occupants enough time to evacuate the building.

We may be able to defer maintenance on some of our buildings, without causing great inconvenience to the occupants.

Occupants of green buildings are in general more satisfied with indoor air quality, their workspace, building cleanliness and maintenance in general.

Green building occupants in one study for instance reported lower absenteeism and fewer lost work hours because of asthma and allergies.

On the whole, the better indoor environmental quality translates into occupants» reporting that they suffer from fewer symptoms of sick building syndrome and that they enjoy better physical and mental health.

Dominion Virginia Power has already installed half of the SmartGrid Charlottesville project's meters, which will enable commercial and residential building occupants to track and adjust their electricity consumption in real time.

Increasing the indoor temperature set point to values in the range of 26 - 29 °C (79 - 84 °F) and simultaneously providing occupants with personally controllable fans could be a cost - effective, sustainable and energy - efficient option for providing thermal comfort in new and existing buildings in the tropics, said Schiavon.

According to the study, 50 percent of electricity in Singapore is consumed by commercial and residential buildings, mainly to supply air conditioning for occupant comfort and to dehumidify air conditioned spaces.

One can't stop bad people from doing bad things, but when bad things happen to tall buildings, the situation quickly becomes desperate — for the occupants, for firefighters, and for adjacent buildings — in ways that are an order of magnitude worse than in low buildings.

Chemical exposures in recently renovated low - income housing: Influence of building materials and occupant activities.

Shelley Winters plays the concierge, a woman with little time for the others occupants; veteran Hollywood actor Melyyn Douglas is Monsieur Zy, the recalcitrant owner of the building who demands that his tenants live as quietly as possible; other tenants include the shrewish M. Dioz (Jo Van Fleet (East of Eden, The King and Four Queens) who wages spiteful wars on those with whom she has fallen into disagreement, and the meek mother (Lila Kedrova — The Kremlin Letter) and her disabled daughter who become the focus of Dioz's vitriol.

Michelle soon discovers a third occupant of the bunker, a young man named Emmet (Gallagher Jr.), who helped build the cellar and forced his way in when the attack occurred.

The real hampering element to the movie's tension - building and payoffs is a narrative that switches between a Kafkaesque tale of wrongful imprisonment, the mysterious and ever - evolving history of the incestuous occupants of the castle that stood where the sanitarium is now, the uncomfortable relationship between Lockhart and a fellow patient named Hannah (Mia Goth) whose mental and actual age are in question, and scenes of nightmarish horror that may or may not be the result of Lockhart's diminishing mental state.

Schools are often designed and built to minimise costs whilst providing an adequate level of fire safety for the occupants.

Health and safety legislation requires the «responsible person'to ensure the safety of all occupants of public buildings and workplaces.

Often, the needs of historic buildings change with time and therefore occupants of the buildings will require differing levels of building services.

The building occupants The most obvious difference in cleaning a school as opposed to any other business premises is of course its occupants.

Created to celebrate exemplars of building performance by measuring rigorously collected data, the Awards show how good engineering can directly affect the amount of energy used in a building and reduction of emissions while taking into account the occupants» experiences at the same time.

The rationale of the Building Regulations in the UK is that: «in an emergency the occupants of any part of a building should be able to escape safely without any external assistanceBuilding Regulations in the UK is that: «in an emergency the occupants of any part of a building should be able to escape safely without any external assistancebuilding should be able to escape safely without any external assistance.»

To encourage sustainable thinking in its occupants, the «eco» features of the building are visible to the eye; its rainwater harvesting pipes are transparent and the ceilings show its sprinkler channels and acoustic cushions, so that pupils can see how things go together and work.

The L8 Code of Practice on legionella prevention guides duty holders in protecting building occupants from outbreaks of Legionnaire's Disease.

This will involve an understanding of fire dynamics, smoke movement, and the likely impacts on the building occupants, requiring expertise in fire behaviour and fire risk management.

Such data is able to highlight which areas of a building are in use — those that are regularly in use and those that have no occupants during specific times of day.

All construction or renovation projects are subject to the provisions and requirements of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code, which regulates the safety and welfare of school building ocBuilding Code, which regulates the safety and welfare of school building ocbuilding occupants.

It is one of the biggest areas for house building in England, so schools are being built to cater for the occupants of new housing.

The primary purpose of the design of Virginia's public school buildings is to protect and enhance the life, safety and welfare of the building's occupants.

Forget silence: Whatever you were listening to — the noisy ministrations of New York City sanitation professionals, the sound of trust - funders» wailing preschoolers, the clanging racket of a pile driver building luxury condos --- all the morning sounds of Manhattan's SoHo are obliterated by the ripping blast of evil intent that greets occupants and those in the general vicinity of the new 550 - horsepower 2015 Range Rover Sport SVR when ignition is ordered.

Clearly the M550i was built more for coddling its occupants in comfort and a vast array of technologies than in nailing apexes.