The Attias make some lavish claims for what a circular layout does for building efficiency.
David Myers, who was York's chief executive and is now president of the building efficiency group at Johnson Controls.
The most explosive growth is coming from the building efficiency group, where revenues are expected to jump 25% in 2007.
"I think what gets overlooked is the real nuts and bolts around energy efficiency itself, " says Dave Myers, Johnson Controls' president for building efficiency.
While Title 24 has improved building efficiency by more than 50%, these technologies have not been applied to existing buildings in a comprehensive manner.
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Beijing also requires government agencies to buy energy-efficient products, and it has focused on improving building efficiency in hotels in the China's cold northern regions.
It applies it to allocating grants for transportation, for workforce training programs, and for the way we encourage commercial building efficiency and electric vehicle deployment.
We agreed to deepen our cooperation in pursuit of clean energy technologies, and this includes the creation of a new clean energy research center here in India, and continuing our joint research into solar, biofuels, shale gas, and building efficiency.
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The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.
The proliferation of city and state building energy efficiency codes, combined with the eagerness of building owners to seek LEED ratings, tells me that policymakers and the market are increasingly demanding energy efficiency in new construction.
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Broadly speaking, this means carbon footprint reporting and building energy efficiency and monitoring, analyzing, reporting and reducing energy consumption.
The first kinds are those who use it for corporate sustainability reporting, and the others are for those that want to reduce cost through building energy efficiency.
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California was able to achieve this efficiency by establishing building codes that require energy efficiency in new construction, and by stimulating private companies to improve the efficiency of their own operations.
Higher education minister David Lammy said spending on frontline teaching would be protected by savings on building and making efficiency measures.
There was no wind-generated electricity, and we didn't have the nation's most advanced building and appliance efficiency standards as we later adopted.
Alaska Airlines came in second with three leafs, scoring well in recycling, building design and carbon efficiency.
When combined with an absence of customer education and a product that lacks the sex appeal of solar, building owners often overlook efficiency reserves as a source of revenue.
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It might take longer to gain mainstream awareness, but with the groundswell of social media and capital efficiency of building a company, media reach is no longer a gating item.
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People rarely talk about efficiency in building relationships.
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Corporate customers are supposed to use that system to deliver their own consumer products, and buy efficiency-building network software that is to come out of HP Labs and EDS, the consulting company purchased in 2008.
Meanwhile, wind and building-integrated solar modules with high efficiency photovoltaic materials can supplement our electrical generation capability, as stricter building codes and improved insulation can decrease the energy used to heat and cool buildings.
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This is an extremely effective and genuine way of building camaraderie, unity and efficiency.
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Efficiency developers need to hasten efforts to standardize measurement methodologies and data reporting, helping investors and building owners confidently understand the value of their efficiency reserves.
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Today, Puerto Rican workers are writing the next chapter by turning the building into a model of energy efficiency.
Similar to geologists evaluating how to produce a reservoir, the efficiency engineers use this comprehensive data to calibrate simulation models that predict the financial impact of a range of efficiency measures over the building life.
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Operating buildings cooling, heating, lighting accounts for about 36 percent of our overall energy consumption, according to the EPA, which is why efficiency retrofits and improving building codes have been a big focus of late.
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Unfortunately, these models are fundamentally flawed in being biased to favor corrosive price promotion over brand-building advertising and to favor advertising cost efficiency over sales-growth effectiveness.
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Many of the building's other innovations involve increasing efficiency.
It's technology, technology, building hydrogen-fueled cars, conservation efficiency.
Indeed, a new push to improve vehicle crashworthiness could complicate efforts by auto makers to persuade consumers that the lighter, smaller cars they are building to address tougher government fuel-efficiency standards and motorists' concerns about fuel prices are also safe.
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