Sentences with phrase «vegetation around buildings»

For example, the guidelines state that reducing energy consumption could be achieved by exploring grants for energy efficiency improvements as well as by placing vegetation around buildings to lower heating and cooling costs.

Park District officials will plant native trees and vegetation around the building to help clear - cut invasive species dominating the area.

Not exact matches

(a) A trumpet - shaped ant tower built around emerging vegetation in the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp in Louisiana.

Set in low rise spacious buildings located around the resort, each room or suite has either a balcony or terrace overlooking one of the swimming pools or lush vegetation.

Structurally, all resort buildings and infrastructure (e.g. boardwalks) were built with minimal vegetation clearing, in many cases the structures were built around the trees.

The exterior of the restaurant looks nondescript and rundown, with overgrown vegetation around the edges of the building, but don't let that deter you from eating there.

She is the kind of gamer who spend a lot of time running around looking at vegetation, stones and buildings.

The thermometer network is made up of a patchwork of non-research quality instruments that were never made to monitor long - term temperature changes to tenths or hundredths of a degree... Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetation.

Furthermore, land - based thermometers are placed where people live, and people build stuff, often replacing cooling vegetation with manmade structures that cause an artificial warming (urban heat island, UHI) effect right around the thermometer.