Sentences with phrase «replace other building materials»

Not exact matches

To relieve some of the financial pressure landmarking puts on property owners, Comrie recently proposed two bills: One would require the Department of City Planning to consider the economic impact of designating a landmark, instead of focusing solely on a building's historic and aesthetic worth, while the other would allow owners of landmarked buildings to replace fixtures — like windows, roofing or siding — with newer, cheaper materials rather than the materials that were part of the building's original design.

The city of Los Angeles now requires that new or replaced roofs for homes and other residential buildings meet a solar reflectance index value — a measure of a materials» ability to stay cool in the sun between zero (black surface) and 100 (white)-- of at least 75 for flatter roofs and 16 for steeper ones.

When you build a house that lasts three to five times as long (as European houses do), you not only save on structural materials emissions impacts, but on all of the other elements that are then sent to a landfill and have to be replaced.

Wood does a lot more than just sequester carbon as it grows; it provides a valuable renewable resource that can replace other materials in building.