Sentences with phrase «of more energy efficient buildings»

This course discusses the physical and performance properties of polyisocyanurate (polyiso) foam board insulation — a commercially - established, cost effective technology that is very useful for the construction of more energy efficient buildings.

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This is both a matter of more efficient electric appliances and cars, and a matter of constructing buildings in such a way that far less energy is needed for heating and cooling.

«Leading by example in making state buildings more energy efficient will save taxpayers money, create thousands of local jobs, and bolster New York's broader efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Tony Perks, Chair of the CIOB's Building Control and Standards Faculty said, «For some time the CIOB has promoted the use of consequential improvements as a means of making the existing building stock more energy efBuilding Control and Standards Faculty said, «For some time the CIOB has promoted the use of consequential improvements as a means of making the existing building stock more energy efbuilding stock more energy efficient.

A leading expert on sustainable buildings, Brown directs the University of Oregon's Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy ebuildings, Brown directs the University of Oregon's Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy effiEnergy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy eBuildings Laboratory, where researchers test ways to make structures, including hospitals, radically more energy effienergy efficient.

H.R. 2454, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, would require residential and commercial buildings to be 30 percent more efficient than the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code.

«Instead, we need to become more energy - efficient, build more efficient cars and trucks, and also produce a greater share of our electricity from renewable sources like wind, especially in a state like Kansas.»

With the nation's water infrastructure nearing the end of its design life, Stanford engineer Richard Luthy says now is the time to build a more energy - efficient system.

This comprehensive assessment provides new inspiration and understanding of design principles that may lead to more efficient synthetic approaches for advanced, lightweight structural materials for transportation, buildings, batteries, and energy conversion.

Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.

To build those machines, which are 100 times more powerful than today's top performers, researchers need to come up with a host of breakthroughs in everything from making energy efficient chips to new algorithms for programming them.

Research at the University of Pittsburgh into a more energy - efficient catalytic process to produce olefins, the building blocks for polymer production, was recently featured on the inside front cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Catalysis Science & Technology (May 21, 2017, Issue 10).

Mikel Zubizarreta, a member of the UPV / EHU's IT 781 - 13 group, highlights the advantages of timber in building works: «Although it is not as tough as other materials used in structures, it is a better insulator, in other words, it is more energy - efficient and less dense so the structure weighs less.

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

While as a proof - of - concept the research group built a more energy - efficient incandescent light bulb, the same approach could also be used to improve the performance of other hot thermal emitters, including thermo - photovoltaic devices.

«In many cases, energy management is actually more rewarding than decorating buildings with energy - efficient products,» says Tan Hongwei, head of green building and the new energy research center at Tongji University, whose words have been put into test at his own campus.

As a result, in 2010, more than 95 percent of newly constructed buildings in cities are energy - efficient, according to the Chinese standards, up from nearly 25 percent five years ago, Beijing reported happily in its annual statement.

«When it's more important than ever to cut energy costs and reduce pollution in our communities, organizations across America are making their buildings more efficient, raising the bar in energy efficiency and lowering the amount of carbon pollution and other emissions in the air we breathe,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a statement.

To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need to be made more efficient, adopting measures ranging from reducing the energy costs of sanitation to constructing buildings that waste less energy.

Because economic growth continues to boost the demand for energy — more coal for powering new factories, more oil for fueling new cars, more natural gas for heating new homes — carbon emissions will keep climbing despite the introduction of more energy - efficient vehicles, buildings and appliances.

Green Building Solutions (greenbuildingsolutions.org), a plastics industry original website by the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy - efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction sinBuilding Solutions (greenbuildingsolutions.org), a plastics industry original website by the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy - efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction sinbuilding materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction since 2005.

In fact, my longtime collaborator, David Smith, is involved with a company called Kymeta that is using metamaterials to build a satellite communications dish that is cheaper, lighter, and more energy efficient than the current generation of dishes.

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

As you say; I should not see it as a performance degradation but more off the built up of an efficient energy consumption system.

«Often, it's more cost effective not to do a tear - down of an old building but instead perform energy - efficient retrofits and renovations.»

The newest lighting systems and heating and air conditioning units use less energy; modern windows are more efficient at keeping unwanted heat out of a building in the summer and preventing cold from penetrating the building in the winter.

For example you could just floor the accelerator and rapidly produce the energy required but there is no way for you to know whether that path is more efficient than building that energy over a longer period of time.

Today's HVAC equipment is more energy efficient than ever and opportunities for improving the energy efficiency of building envelopes continue to evolve.

Not many technical details on what kind of measures might have been taken to make the building more energy - efficient, but at the minimum the project plays out the idea that the greenest building is the one that's already standing, by re-adapting an existing structure for a second life.

, 545 (scale re Secular Animist), Secular Animist 542 (re Dan H. 541), — I should probably clarify that specifically what I meant was that it should tend to be more efficient to choose building a unit of clean energy infrastructure in a developing country than replace a unit of dirty energy infrastructure with said unit of clean energy infrastructure while building another new dirty energy infrastructure unit; of course those aren't the only two choices.

And that's why we've proposed new programs to help Americans upgrade their homes and businesses and plants with new, energy - efficient building materials — new lighting, new windows, new heating and cooling systems --- investments that will save consumers and business owners tens of billions of dollars a year, and free up money for investment and hiring and creating new jobs and hiring more workers and putting contractors to work as well.

Yahoo Real Estate study finds that of people consider green / energy efficient appliances / materials are a requirement of their dream home — it is more popular than perennial favorites such as «building a custom home» «water views» and «mountain views»

I've suggested using the money from it to instead fix up several of the worse neighborhoods and make those buildings more energy - efficient.

The Public Buildings Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (S. 992) helps make federal buildings more energy efficient and cost effective, and includes $ 100 million dollars in EPA grants for local governments to make their buildings more energy efficientBuildings Cost Reduction Act of 2007 (S. 992) helps make federal buildings more energy efficient and cost effective, and includes $ 100 million dollars in EPA grants for local governments to make their buildings more energy efficientbuildings more energy efficient and cost effective, and includes $ 100 million dollars in EPA grants for local governments to make their buildings more energy efficientbuildings more energy efficient as well.

No one can predict what new applications will be born of basic research: new treatments in our hospitals, or new sources of efficient energy; new building materials; new kinds of crops more resistant to heat and to drought.

Only 19 % of voters expressed a preference for waiting until cleaner technologies were available.The top strategy voters favored to lower global warming - induced pollution was requiring appliance makers to build more energy - efficient products and providing the public with better incentives to invest in solar energy and insulation.

All of us will need to buy more of the fuel - efficient cars built by this state, and find new ways to improve efficiency and save energy in our own homes and businesses.

The authors also examined a series of studies on how America's homes and buildings have become increasingly energy efficient thanks to state and local policies, improved technologies and a growing recognition among builders that using less energy can mean saving more money.

So, for energy efficiency, we proposed everything from advanced lighting, better motors, more efficient building construction — all those kinds of things.

By providing an additional layer of insulation, they significantly reduce a building's need for cooling and heating, making it more energy efficient, saving energy costs, and decreasing its carbon emissions.

«Those states with the best ideas to create jobs and lower energy bills by constructing more efficient buildings will receive federal support to help make that happen,» Obama said in last year's State of the Union.

I heard rumours of studies during the Californian electricity crisis that showed it was cheaper per watt to subsidise or give away energy efficient appliances to homeowners and businesses, than to build new generation capacity, I apologise for having nothing more concrete on this, but perhaps another commenter is aware of this or similar research.

John B. Rhodes, President and CEO, NYSERDA, said, «Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by making buildings more energy efficient is a vital component of Governor Cuomo's nation - leading energy strategy.

Several states (California, for example) adopted stricter energy codes for commercial buildings that were partly responsible for the development of markets for these more - efficient lighting products.

If you are one of those people who wants more renewable power, more energy efficient buildings, and more green jobs, you should want to drive changes in behaviour, not simply reward those which would have been there in the first place.

Japan should balance and diversify its energy mix through a combination of renewable and nuclear energy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy senergy mix through a combination of renewable and nuclear energy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy senergy and efficient thermal power generation, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy sEnergy Agency (IEA) said today in its latest review of Japan's energy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy senergy policies, stressing this would help the country build a more secure, affordable, safe and decarbonised energy senergy system.

Obama also called for funding to modernize the nation's electricity grid and make 75 percent of all federal buildings and up to 2 million American homes more energy efficient.

So making buildings more energy - efficient could have a significant impact on energy policy, notes Rebecca Flora of the Green Building Alliance, a group that promotes sustainable architecture.

«Industry uses more recycled and energy - efficient materials, buildings are constructed or upgraded to need minimal energy for heating and cooling, and there is a shift to more efficient forms of transport.

To receive Green Community designation, communities must develop and implement a plan to reduce energy use by 20 percent within five years and meet additional criteria including allowing for permitting and siting of renewable energy, purchasing fuel - efficient and alternative fuel vehicles, and adopting more stringent building codes.