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The key to successfully implementing a comprehensive energy management program is systems integration — being able to simultaneously monitor heating and cooling systems, lighting, production machines and all other energy-consuming equipment, according to Control Engineering.
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Due to new timber engineering, designs for timber skyscrapers are coming from all corners of the globe.
“Herein lies a key catalyst for the timber trend’s underlying popularity. The process lends itself to creating highly green buildings when sustainable timber is used in the development process, as is the case in popular timber development concepts around the world.”
“Timber is ideal for green building – it has a lower overall environmental and carbon footprint than other materials and is renewable,” says BSLC executive director Cees de Jager. “Wood is well suited for a broad range of structural and aesthetic applications, is high performance, and, in many cases, is a more economical choice.”
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The new polycarbonates for LED cooling elements … are an alternative to aluminum. … Unlike their aluminum counterparts, the injection-molded cooling elements require no post-treatment, enabling cost-effective production with low energy consumption.
“LED – the lighting technology of the future
LED lighting technology can look forward to strong growth thanks to its low power consumption, low maintenance requirement and long service life. It is already displacing traditional lighting systems in numerous applications. Current uses include street lighting, business, restaurant and residential luminaires, advertising, trade show stand construction and ambient lighting in automotive interiors.”
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The Tenacious Hunt for REBATES on LED Tube Lights…
“Independence LED did some research and found out that the state of Delaware created its own Sustainable Energy Utility to provide financial incentives to spur energy efficiency initiatives, as opposed to delegating the incentive program to private utilities. The program, named “Energize Delaware”, offered $150 per qualified fixture for parking garage LED lighting upgrades.”
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We made a long-term assessment of the adoption of smart systems and services by consumers in Western Europe (Figure 1). In 10 years’ time we believe that approximately 30% of broadband households will have some type of smart system – a system with some level of intelligence that can be programmed to perform tasks according to a desired schedule, routine or in response to specific events.
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Of all the ways commercial real estate owners can spend capital, those of us in favor of environmental initiatives hope that cost-saving “energy retrofits” are somewhere near the top of that list.
“The “split-incentive problem” has gotten in the way for a long time. That’s where owners pay for capital upgrades to base building systems (such as HVAC and elevators) and tenants pay their prorated portion of the energy bill.”
“More than anything else, the solution hinges on the ability of engineers to predict the savings associated with an energy retrofit in a commercial building within +/-20%.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Mayor Edwin M. Lee on Monday announced that the Moscone Center has received LEED Gold certification, the first convention center on the West Coast to attain the green building honor.
“Mayor Lee also introduced preliminary legislation to establish the Moscone Expansion District, increasing hotel room taxes to help pay for the Moscone Convention Center’s expansion, which will add more than 200,000 square feet of underground and aboveground convention and meeting space. The proposed approximately $500 million expansion will create about 3,420 new jobs and generate $700 million in revenue for the first seven years, and projects hotel occupancy will increase to an average of 87.6 percent. “
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New Industrial Efficiency Technology Database (IETD) delivers rich and relevant information about the best available and latest energy efficient technologies and practices…
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Much of the environmental control is achieved through passive means, before resorting to less efficient, active systems such as air conditioning. Fresh air filters through a desiccant, then to conventional chillers. As the desiccant extracts moisture, it also cools the air inside. But to keep the desiccant functioning, energy is needed to remove the accumulated moisture. This is where sustainable technologies come in: An on-site biomass boiler—fueled entirely with green waste from the city’s national parks—and hot air collected from the top of the glasshouses provide sufficient energy to cool the conservatories.
“The result is not an experimental building, but its ventilation strategy has an experimental component,” Finch said. “In a globalized environment, there is so much interest in how we deal with density and this combination of urbanism with a garden that is both an attraction and nature is a wonderful solution. If they can cool these glasshouses through natural cooling, we should ask why it can’t be done in other buildings?”
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How does access to sustainable modern energy services for more than 1 billion people act as an integral catalyst to overcoming poverty in developing nations?
“Sustainable energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, social equity, and a climate and environment that enables the world to thrive.”
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