Posted in Biofuels, Building on 2008-04-24 | No Comments »
The University of Bradford hopes to save 500 tonnes of carbon per year with the installation of a new £325,000 biomass boiler. The boiler, which will replace three existing gas-fired boilers on campus, is part of a new £230,000 Energy and Recycling Centre to be housed at the rear of the University’s J B Priestley [...]
Posted in Building, CO2-Emission, Research on 2008-04-10 | No Comments »
People could live in glass houses and look at the world through rose-tinted windows while reducing their carbon emissions by 50%, thanks to QUT Institute of Sustainable Resources (ISR) research.
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Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company [...]
Posted in Building, CO2-Emission, Efficiency, Energy on 2008-04-03 | No Comments »
Financial barriers, including high initial cost barriers and an inadequacy of traditional financing instruments, are a key element preventing private actors from engaging further towards making the residential building sector more energy efficient, according to a study from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on 20 March.
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Posted in Building, Efficiency, Energy on 2008-03-25 | No Comments »
Financial barriers, including high initial cost barriers and an inadequacy of traditional financing instruments, are a key element preventing private actors from engaging further towards making the residential building sector more energy efficient, according to a study from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on 20 March.
More on this topic:
LinksDossier: Energy efficiency: the EU’s action plan
LinksDossier: [...]
Posted in Building, CO2-Emission, Climate on 2008-02-26 | No Comments »
“To win the race against global warming” is the vision of Carbon Challenge, a campaign that unites the ambitious goals of competing in the world’s leading sailing events – the Volvo Ocean Race and the America’s Cup - with the objective of becoming a catalyst and facilitator for a drastic reduction [...]
Posted in Building, Solar Energy on 2008-02-05 | No Comments »
The Afsluitdijk, the dike in the northern part of the Netherlands which connects the provinces Fryslân and North-Holland, does not meet the present standards for safety anymore. There are shortcomings in respect to the height of the dike and the water retaining height, stability and reliability of the structures. These shortcomings are consequences of a [...]
Posted in Building, Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-02-04 | No Comments »
Designs decorating the huge windows of corporate buildings may soon be able to provide more than just advertising. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a new solar module that uses organic dyes in combination with nanoparticles to produce electricity.
A glass facade made of this [...]
Posted in Building, Energy, Europe, Policy on 2008-02-03 | No Comments »
ALL new buildings in a Mid Wales county will need to incorporate energy-efficiency measures to combat climate change, it was announced yesterday.Powys County Council is the first planning authority in Wales to require these measures, thanks to a new planning policy.
A council spokesman said, “Anyone applying for planning permission for new building work will need [...]
Posted in Building, Environment on 2008-01-21 | No Comments »
Environmentally-friendly buildings have evolved from hippy habitats to office towers and shopping centres, becoming a far more commonplace presence in city skylines and communities throughout the United States, as well as overseas.
Call it the “Al Gore Factor” or the “George Bush Effect”, but there are several reasons behind the renewed interest in the energy-efficient, [...]
Posted in Building, Energy on 2008-01-18 | No Comments »
In a small town in southwestern New Hampshire a big idea is emerging. It’s a concept called cohousing and it’s beginning to break ground across America. Here, twenty-nine families live in a neighborhood of single-, double-, and quadruple-family homes that are clustered on a small portion of 113 acres of pasture, ponds and open land. [...]
