Schneider Electric and Johnson Controls to start-ups like BuildingIQ and JouleX are scrambling to take advantage of this convergence by developing integrated building information, management and controls platforms.
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Large scale building integrated structural sheeting, massively networked for smoothing variability in renewable energy will allow for much greater integration of renewables sources.
The next area where solar may make huge gains is integration into the skin of buildings, what is know as Building Integrated Photovoltaics, or BIPV.
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The eight-year-old New York-based shop of 22 employees focused on building integrated branded experiences for clients, such GE Works Centre, has been working with GE since 2010.
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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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Several such applications would be enabled by high-performance visibly transparent photovoltaic (PV) devices, including building-integrated photovoltaics and integrated PV chargers for portable electronics.
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An approach to integrated catchment management by building a framework for water law and policy experts, water resource managers and water scientists to work together on water-related problems.
Its collectors are also suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics, such as energy-harvesting awnings or the sides of tall buildings, but market has not yet materialized at scale.
In the very near future, the North American power grid will be populated by a bewildering array of distributed energy resources ranging from building-integrated solar photovoltaics and micro-cogen to intelligent control systems and mesh network lighting.
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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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The firm is a completely integrated heavy engine maker, building everything from the turbochargers to the power units and filtration systems used on its engines.
Today LinkedIn has more than 3, 000 employees focused on building a highly integrated, compelling, value-oriented social network which meets the needs of business professionals and employers.
It will be implemented in close cooperation with the Global Ocean Forum led Voluntary Commitment on building global capacity for integrated ocean governance, in partnership with countries, UN Agencies, global financial institutions, and the private sector.
They learn to use these Lego building blocks and create an integrated, functional model.
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There is no comparable period in 2011, because the company didn't begin producing sand until July of that year after building a facility with an integrated railway line in Wyeville, Wis.
For instance, IBM is using Java as the technical heart of its San Francisco Project, a set of frameworks for building business applications, such as integrated financial systems, by combining pre-built components such as accounts payable and receivable modules.
The purpose of the UNESCO Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, education, training, capacity building, information and documentation in the field of African peace and conflict studies.
And Panasonic is building iPod docks into its home theater systems alongside an integrated Blu-Ray player.
Its complex is more vertically integrated than most U.S. factories--stamping body panels and building engines and transmissions, along with cars, all on one site.
The QNX CAR application platform from QNX Software Systems is a comprehensive, pre-integrated software stack designed to help automotive companies reduce the time and effort of building highly sophisticated and connected infotainment systems.
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In cooperation with States Parties and the Advisory Bodies coordinate and prepare training and capacity-building activities in natural heritage in the Africa Region in priority for integrated management planning and monitoring in coordination with the UNESCO field offices.
Because the integrated lights will also be able to send digital information back and forth, building owners and managers will be able to get more information about energy consumption than they could with separate controls today, Lawler said.
All our efforts should be focused towards building these five elements at various levels in a coherent and in an integrated manner.
Over the centuries, we have applied some of the ingenuity used to analyze data about nature to building things that calculate data, whether organizations of human computers or machines of integrated circuits.
First, it's not that long since the Co-op bought the Britannia building society, and the FSA would have to be persuaded that the Britannia had been properly and safely integrated before giving the Co-op the green light to make a much bigger takeover.
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