When completed, it will be one of the first net-zero energy and net-zero water-waste buildings in the country.

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Broad Group, a Chinese maker of air conditioners, taps the waste heat from buildings to power its machines.

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And in Thailand, architects Achawin Laohavichairat, Montakan Manosong, and Peerapon Karunwiwat came up with a design for a beehive-style apartment that would that live off the waste of existing buildings.

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And, to get a basic point of reference, construction and demolition waste stems from the construction of buildings and civil infrastructure, total or partial demolition of buildings and civil infrastructure, road planning and maintenance most of which can be recycled in one way or another.

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The NAO report earlier this month found that hazardous waste was being stored in "run-down" buildings, and that the cost of decommissioning was spiralling out of control and was behind schedule.

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This, Lohan hopes, will allow the system to deal with more concentrated waste streams from big buildings and even operations like pig and dairy farms, which produce huge volumes of concentrated waste.

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Buildings waste a huge amount of energy, and since the market does a bad job of making them more efficient, some government intervention may be necessary.

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Meanwhile, engineers are continuing to pump some 11, 500 tonnes of low-level radioactive seawater into the sea so the more highly contaminated water from reactor No 2 can be stored in waste buildings.

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Like the first book, the new book surveys the hot spots in the clean tech space, which include net-zero energy green buildings, advanced waste heat technologies for combined heat and power and several other technologies.

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