Hybrid solar systems for buildings have been developed, including by the Turkish company Solimpeks Solar Energy.
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During the rainy season, it is not uncommon for buildings to collapse, injuring or killing the residents.
It is also closing inefficient industrial facilities, tightened efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and is expanding forest coverage.
As for buildings and equipment, they were the responsibility of the local authorities.
Louis, which makes cladding for buildings such as the Staples Center in Los Angeles, hooked up with Think3 two years ago.
He said he favors policies that mandate energy efficiency and conservation, including better fuel mileage for cars and insulation for buildings.
Current zoning for the properties Amazon has acquired allows for buildings up to 500 feet in height, or about 40 stories, Stevens noted.
This then makes sky high land prices worse - because local communities oppose developments making it even tougher for buildings to get built.
The Labour-led Welsh government is facing a 40% cut in its capital budget - which pays for buildings and infrastructure - over three years.
Despite the credit crunch, banks seemed content to offer loans to companies for buildings and equipment, even as they recoiled from lending to households.
Often, when models for buildings are developed, material resistance to blast pressure and fire are unknown, as is the lifetime of materials, microstructure and stresses.
For buildings that require additional security, like government offices, the keys can be combined with other forms of authentication, such as PIN numbers or biometrics.
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The entire village is washed in rich sunburnt shades of ochre, (a natural dye taken from the local soil, no other color is allowed for buildings).
In 2008, Zhang began experimenting with prefab construction that he says makes for buildings that are cheaper to build and consume less concrete and water.
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"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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The partnership is a smart solution for buildings that have limited space on-site but want to broaden their potential resident pool, said Spot owner and founder Mitch Marrow.
For instance, at George Tech they're trying to turn garbage into lava rock so it can be used for everything from paving roads to construction material for buildings.
The group said public funding of religion violates the Constitution and that a long line of federal court decisions bars government support for buildings used primarily for worship.
It is true that the core operating hardware for buildings, from home furnaces to complex office HVAC systems, is dramatically more efficient than 20 years ago, and getting better still.
The call for wiser energy use has been heeded by Edward Yau, Hong Kong's secretary for the environment, who announced in February the government's multi-million dollar commitment to a program of carbon audits for buildings .
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council that awards points for buildings that incorporate various energy efficiency and water conservation features as well as providing such things as bike racks.
To rank all 50 states, the group focused on a variety of programs, including standards for equipment and appliances, energy codes for buildings and policies for land use and transportation, as well as public spending on initiatives at utilities, tailpipe standards and tax incentives.
Bart Sullivan, a senior vice president at WSP Cantor Seinuk, a firm that handles engineering for buildings like One World Trade Center, says building a residential skyscraper is generally more challenging than building a tall office building, partly because residential buildings have fewer internal columns and other core structural elements.
G4S's activities range from delivering cash to banks to creating security systems for buildings and fire protection systems for America's space agency, NASA. Many of these firms benefit from long experience of public-private partnerships, which were pioneered in Britain (and often have a poor reputation there) but have spread to other countries.
It seems to me quite strange that we haven't wished for tall buildings for some time but it is one of the signifiers of a really terrific city.
It is already used for heating buildings and for all sorts of industrial heating.
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That is a worse recovery than most other commercial-property types in that period, ranging from a 36.6% average loss for office buildings to 48.8% for hotels, according to Trepp.
For commercial buildings, the trends are similar, but for somewhat different reasons.
In the nervous reaction to the World Trade Center buildings coming down, building standards were amended to provide for better fire proofing and an additional stairwell for tall buildings.
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