Sentences with phrase «researching efficient buildings»

The institute is researching efficient buildings and transport, testing them out on the eco-friendly population of Basel.

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In essence, these personal assistants — smartphones and tablets — take on much of the research burden and make it far easier, quicker and efficient to build shopping lists, find promotional offers, redeem coupons and even make purchases.

«The SUNY Poly Zen Building was designed by EYP to fulfill the vision of SUNY Poly for a living research lab to study the real - world effectiveness of materials, systems and building performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» shBuilding was designed by EYP to fulfill the vision of SUNY Poly for a living research lab to study the real - world effectiveness of materials, systems and building performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» shbuilding performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» she wrote.

In 2003, she began working as a contractor to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), helping upstate homeowners, local governments and businesses access resources to make their buildings more energy efficient and more affordable.

Through its global quantitative and qualitative research, The Marist Poll offers a wide variety of services which, in turn, allow its clients to build efficient and effective policies, programs, communication strategies, and marketing initiatives.

«The proteins we study are part of the most efficient system ever built, capable of converting the energy from the sun into chemical energy with an unrivaled 60 percent efficiency,» said Yulia Pushkar, a Purdue assistant professor of physics involved in the research.

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).

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

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.

The aim of WMU is to further enhance the objectives and goals of IMO and IMO member states around the world through education, research, and capacity building to ensure safe, secure, and efficient shipping on clean oceans.

It improves access for the users of the INFRAFRONTIER Research Infrastructure by building capacities for systemic phenotyping, archiving and distribution of mouse models and by providing an efficient and transparent access process, based on peer - evaluated scientific excellence.

TRANSVAC is a new infrastructure project - funded by the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020 - that aims to accelerate the development of effective vaccines urgently needed to address European and global health challenges with the ultimate goal to build an efficient and sustainable collaboration of experts and facilities to catalyse vaccine research in Europe.

From making aircraft more fuel efficient, to identifying infectious diseases more quickly, or cutting carbon emissions through innovative building solutions, research from Bath is making a difference around the world.

Mendoza - Cortes has been conducting clean - energy research for several years and recently theorized a way to build more efficient storage for hydrogen fuel.

Research buildings Oliver Milton, partner at Hawkins Brown will speak on creating collaborative, effective and efficient research envirResearch buildings Oliver Milton, partner at Hawkins Brown will speak on creating collaborative, effective and efficient research envirresearch environments.

This means being deeply engaged by data and evidence, from both our own research and research elsewhere, without losing track of the task: building affordable, usable, effective, scalable, efficient solutions for the range of learning challenges.

«Five or ten years ago, it was focused on building an efficient portfolio using the plan's core options,» says Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Investment Management.

Professor Baglione's work leverages 41 Cooper Square as a learning laboratory, exposing students to practical applications of theory they learn and to research projects related to state - of - the - art building controls and energy efficient operations.

Regardless of what the Heritage Foundation thinks, the government can and does have a role to play... cut taxes on businesses and individuals who help us build a green future, conduct research or provide subsidies for private companies to do it, help people make their homes energy efficient, and educate, educate, educate the American people as to what's at stake if we don't pry ourselves away from the oil / coal / gas faucet.

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.

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.

Eleven research projects are detailed, including: efficient duct systems; rain and groundwater management; humidity control systems; foundation insulation systems; drying rates of building assemblies; climatically - tuned building materials; right - sized air conditioning; solar dehumidification; conditioning systems and control; and advanced framing.

The priority research areas are: renewables and energy storage; consumer participation through smart grids and appliances; efficiency to make buildings energy neutral; and sustainable, more efficient and lower carbon transport.

Research also shows that more efficient buildings have higher occupancy rates and increased asset value compared to typical buildings.

The ethanol industry would also benefit, with $ 2.5 billion in new research money to create more efficient biofuels as well as loan guarantees for building new ethanol pipelines and tax breaks for biofuel, electric and hydrogen refueling stations.

Top and above: GE Global Research engineer Doug Hofer is building a compact and highly efficient turbine that fits on a conference table but can generate 10 megawatts (MW), enough to power 10,000 U.S. homes.

This will begin the process of identifying the infrastructure needs for building out commercial - scale sites, including the optimal shipping needs for installing turbines, efficient methods of maintenance, and developing turbine manufacturing facilities, all of which will require testing and potentially more research.

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities in Cambridge, MA is seeking a researcher to conduct advanced research on the control and optimization of energy efficient buildings and large - scale Buildings and Cities in Cambridge, MA is seeking a researcher to conduct advanced research on the control and optimization of energy efficient buildings and large - scale buildings and large - scale networks.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced the launch of a new social media challenge, the How #irev4NY Challenge, where New Yorkers can share via Twitter what they are doing to be more energy efficient or promote clean energy in support of Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), the State's strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers.

«If existing coal plants in the U.S. that only need to recoup operating costs are losing money and closing, then it is difficult to imagine how any new coal plant, no matter how efficient or cheap, can be built and recover investment costs on top of operating costs — at least in the U.S. — as long as gas prices remain low,» said Wade Schauer, director of Americas Power & Renewables Research at Wood Mackenzie.

Research proves that buildings in sprawling locations cause far more carbon emissions from employees and visitors driving to and from them than they save with energy - efficient building technology.

Standalone E-memo assignments — and in particular, the Procedural E-memo assignment described in this Article — offer efficient ways for students to build important skills in practical online research and in writing the clear, focused, time - sensitive emails that are so prevalent in today's practice.

All of this is designed to make the process of legal research more efficient when building a new case.

LWF intends to build an efficient platform to disrupt the global logistics market which is expected to reach $ 15.5 trillion by 2023 as per Transparency Market Research.

Research and assess the market competition and its position so that I can develop an efficient tactical marketing plan which will help build the client's revenue.

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The field needs efficient, theory - based strategies to assess visitors» communication skills in research to promote precision home visiting and to build skills in supervision and coaching.

«NAR research has consistently shown that there is a considerable and growing market for green buildings, and many of today's consumers want homes and communities that are more resource efficient and sensitive to the larger environment,» said NAR President Ron Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I. «NAR's Green Designation helps Realtors ® meet that consumer demand for green building practices.

NAR research has consistently shown a considerable and growing market for energy - efficient buildings, and many of today's consumers want more efficient and eco-friendly homes.

Consumer preferences for walkable communities and energy - efficient homes are on the rise, according to NAR research, along with a considerable and growing market for green building.

«Challenges are inherent for these types of projects; not only are we rehabilitating an historic building, we had to make it flexible to support different types of research and be energy - efficient to achieve the highest possible level of LEED certification.