Sentences with phrase «standard building requirements»

Brown, in his state budget message, also has complained that the process for getting school construction projects approved is too complex, that the first - come, first - served basis for getting matching state money favors large districts with sizable facilities staffs, and that standard building requirements may not encourage non-traditional ways to educate students using less space and fewer facilities.

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AFAS provides assistance for capacity - building for overseas quarantine agencies (or equivalent), in respect to monitoring and registering fumigation providers, and also assists fumigators in maintaining a high standard of methyl bromide fumigation performance and compliance with Australian requirements.

Further, it is not known how requirements for fair prices (such as those in Fairtrade / Fair Trade certification) will be incorporated, as neither RA nor UTZ has any price guarantees built into their current standards.

721 - A, in relation to green building standards for certain capital projects and to repeal section 3 of local law number 86 for the year 2005, relating to certain reporting requirements; Intros.

«We are telling the Legislature and the governor that they can not leave Albany without passing an expanded 421 - a program that increases affordability requirements and expands wage and benefits standards for building workers.

-- The Secretary may not guarantee any eligible mortgage under this section unless the mortgagor has demonstrated, in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary shall establish, the amount of savings attributable to incorporation of the sustainable building elements to be financed with the green portion of the mortgage, as measured by the National Green Building Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsbuilding elements to be financed with the green portion of the mortgage, as measured by the National Green Building Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsBuilding Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsBuilding Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonstration.

(F) Any other requirements, standards, checklists, or rating systems for green building or sustainability as the Secretary may identify and adopt by regulation, as may be necessary for purposes of this paragraph, except that the Secretary shall make a determination regarding whether to adopt and apply any such requirements, standards, checklist, or rating system for purposes of this section not later than the expiration of the 180 - day period beginning upon date of receipt of any written request, made in such form as the Secretary shall provide, for such adoption and application.

It is crucial that a carefully thought - out alternative to Requirement E4 is necessary to maintain a statutory control on acoustic design standards in schools, to avoid school buildings being built that are unsuitable for speaking, listening and learning.

Statutory Requirements In 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Control.

Implement BIM and Soft landing New - build or major enhancement projects should incorporate Government requirements for BIM (Building Information Modelling, see BS PAS 1192 suite of standards) and Soft Landing (see BS 8536).

Since that time, states — spurred in part by the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act — have enacted many of that movement's building blocks related to standards, testing, and accountability.

«Jobs» for Community Improve Skills At one high school, community projects are the key to building reading and math skills that enable students to pass basic standards tests, a graduation requirement.

With this urgent requirement for additional school places, and the continued change in standards and regulation, the modular building industry has risen to the challenge.

We take a standard building solution and enhance it to meet the school's requirements — whether that is for aesthetics or as here, specific classroom sizes.»

Indeed, RttT competition proved so politically successful the Department of Education built on it by allowing all states to seek a waiver of most NCLB requirements by submitting RttT - like reform plans, including test - based teacher evaluations and the setting of standards similar to the Common Core State Standards.

From simple portable cabins to stylish and inspiring multi-storey buildings, our permanent and temporary modular buildings solutions are constructed off - site to the highest standards, before being delivered and fully fitted to your exact requirements.

Leveraging that knowledge and expertise, our programs have been built from the ground up to incorporate the vision as well as the requirements of these next - generation standards.

Our standards have been in place for years and surpass applicable building code requirements.

Estimated facilities investment requirements are based on building industry best practice standards that are adapted to public school infrastructure.

Although Maryland has coursework requirements for both elementary and secondary special education teachers regarding various methods of acquiring information from various texts, these coursework requirements do not address the instructional shifts associated with college - and career - readiness standards toward building content knowledge and vocabulary through careful reading of informational and literary texts.

Building on those foundations, the bipartisan support and ultimate passage of NCLB heralded an even greater continuation of focus on setting expectations and obligations high — with requirements that, among other things, required disaggregation of data in the reporting and accountability for school, school system and state performance toward high standards (set state - by - state), and transparency in reporting of those results.

-- With respect to alterations of buildings or facilities designated as historic under State or local law, the guidelines described in paragraph (1) shall establish procedures equivalent to those established by 4.1.7 (1)(b) and (c) of the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, and shall require, at a minimum, compliance with the requirements established in 4.1.7 (2) of such standards.

It was initially built to meet homologation requirements for motorsport and it featured wider fenders and a larger rear wing compared to the standard model.

So when Renault introduced the Clio Mk4, one of the key requirements was that it was built to a far higher standard.

When work is completed, your home must meet HUD / FHA standards as well as local building code requirements.

- Achieved National Certification as a residential Building Inspector in order to advance knowledge of building standards and code requiBuilding Inspector in order to advance knowledge of building standards and code requibuilding standards and code requirements.

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 of our discoveries was that many campus sustainability directors are frustrated by what they regard as a double standard in campus budgeting: A climate - mitigation project, such as energy - efficient building design, is subject to strict payback requirements.

The Administration Bulletin states in part: «The Green Buildings Policy for Rezoning allows the Passive House standard (also referred to interchangeably as Passiv Haus) to be used as an equivalent method to the LEED / ASHRAE requirements to achieve and measure a high standard of building performance.

Passive House is a recognized international standard for a building's energy efficiency to reduce heating and cooling requirements by up to 90 percent and overall energy demand by up to 75 percent compared to conventional buildings, while also providing the most comfortable and healthy interior environment.

All NativeEnergy carbon projects that you can help build receive third party validation as meeting the requirements of the carbon standard.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

(7) A requirement that building retrofits conducted pursuant to a REEP program utilize, especially in all air - conditioned buildings, roofing materials with high solar energy reflectance, unless inappropriate due to green roof management, solar energy production, or for other reasons identified by the Administrator, in order to reduce energy consumption within the building, increase the albedo of the building's roof, and decrease the heat island effect in the area of the building, without reduction of otherwise applicable ceiling insulation standards.

-- The Secretary may not guarantee any eligible mortgage under this section unless the mortgagor has demonstrated, in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary shall establish, the amount of savings attributable to incorporation of the sustainable building elements to be financed with the green portion of the mortgage, as measured by the National Green Building Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsbuilding elements to be financed with the green portion of the mortgage, as measured by the National Green Building Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsBuilding Standard for all residential construction developed by the National Association of Home Builders and the U.S. Green Building Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonsBuilding Council, and approved by the American National Standards Institute, as updated and in effect at the time of such demonstration.

Flood hazard zones from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) often serve as default standards for building and infrastructure flood protection requirements.

While the ZERO Code incorporates the latest ASHRAE Standard 90.1 - 2016 requirements for minimum building efficiency, other existing or new prescriptive and performance standards can also be accommodated, such as the International Green Construction Code (IgCC), ASHRAE Standard 189.1 - 2017, or any building energy efficiency standards that are more stringent than ASHRAE Standard 90.1 - 2016.

Once the Energy Commission staff has verified that the local standards will require buildings to use no more energy than the current statewide Standards and that the documentation requirements in Section 10 - 106 are met, the application is brought before the full Energy Commission for approval.

Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council's decision in April to require the passive house standard or demonstrably equivalent approaches as a planning requirement for all new buildings in the county is a shining example of such a policy.

In addition to the solar requirement, the new building standards will offer a credit for solar capacity combined with on - site energy storage.

What are the implications, if a local authority rejects the will of its democratically elected representatives to use an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - endorsed standard to tackle climate change, and in so doing permits buildings to be built to a standard that falls so woefully short of EU requirements designed to tackle climate change?

This performance metric made economic sense based on common building standards, meaning that it's flexible enough to dovetail with LEED or SITES requirements.

The Task Force on Green Buildings was established to look beyond the sustainability requirements for municipal buildings in place in San Francisco, and recommend green building standards applicable to all new buildings and most major renBuildings was established to look beyond the sustainability requirements for municipal buildings in place in San Francisco, and recommend green building standards applicable to all new buildings and most major renbuildings in place in San Francisco, and recommend green building standards applicable to all new buildings and most major renbuildings and most major renovations.

How To Be Green So, lets start with a basic requirement that we need a building that meets code and the standard of care.

The building scored an impressive airtightness test result of 0.5 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals — a score that not only blitzes the requirement for Enerphit (the passive house standard for retrofit), but comfortably beats the new build passive house target of 0.6 ACH too.

In certain zones, the green building standard, which saves resources and promotes renewable, clean energy, is one of several requirements in order gain additional height, floor area or density.

This is also true of the international Passivhaus Standard — it is relatively easy for a large building to meet the requirements compared to a smaller building.

In fact, projects built to this standard are 80 % more efficient to heat and cool than a typical new building built to the minimum building code requirements.

Whilst great strides are being made in upgrading energy performance requirements under Part L of the Building Regulations, the issue of ventilation has remained largely ignored by legislators for years, leaving designers with antiquated standards to work to.

The green building standard is a voluntary standard which is awarded to new or renovated residential and office buildings that comply with certain requirements and criteria in the fields of energy, water, land and other environmental subjects.

We can guarantee that all our homes either meet or exceed all Australian and New Zealand standards and the requirements of the Building Code of Australia....