Building Design And Energy Analysis Articles & Analysis
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The Fife framework is used by local authorities and registered social housing providers across Scotland and England to ensure value for money, quality and compliance when procuring technologies and services for community and district heating schemes. Following a rigorous assessment process, Switch2 has now been approved to supply the complete long-term operational needs of heat networks. This ...
Original story at MIT News The co-founders of MIT spinout KGS Buildings have a saying: “All buildings are broken.” Energy wasted through faulty or inefficient equipment, they say, can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoidable annual costs. That’s why KGS aims to “make buildings better” with cloud-based software, called Clockworks, that collects existing ...
Onset (http://www.onsetcomp.com), a leading supplier of data loggers and weather stations, today announced the HOBO® Green Roof Monitoring System, a research-grade system for measuring the performance of green roofs. Providing reliable performance in harsh rooftop conditions, the 15-channel system enables users to quickly and easily monitor green roof conditions, measure stormwater runoff, ...
As green roofs become more popular for environmentally-sensitive, sustainable buildings, monitoring and documenting their performance has become important. A new 12-page best practices guide from Onset, Monitoring Green Roof Performance with Weather Stations, discusses the importance of monitoring and documenting green roof performance, and explains how data logging weather stations can help ...
The first step to reducing building energy costs is identifying energy waste. Statistics on utility bills or name plates on equipment, while useful, are not enough to identify the practices and equipment that are contributing to high energy use. Portable data loggers can be used to obtain critical energy use information in a wide range of commercial building ...
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused ...
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on ...
U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky convened a meeting with representatives of Indie Energy, Garrett-Evangelical, Northwestern University, and the Evanston Chamber of Commerce to discuss the economic benefits of using renewable energy to create highly energy efficient buildings for campuses and communities. The meeting was preceded by Schakowsky's visit to the joint Garrett-Evangelical and Indie ...
Crawley will be responsible for developing building energy and sustainability design simulation and analysis tools. ...
Gone is the tedious and time-consuming task of manually entering building geometry data. Now users can quickly sketch a computerized 3-D drawing of a building and run a fast simulation during the early design phase to determine if their design is energy efficient. ...
The White House announced its intention to nominate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley engineer and scientist Arun Majumdar to become the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). ARPA-E’s goals are to create technologies that have the potential to reduce the nation’s reliance on foreign energy ...