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Tech Note: heat recovery 

For high performance buildings
While all heat recovery devices suffer a fan power penalty because of their airstream resistance, runaround coil systems incur an additional energy penalty because of the glycol pump. » Read more

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Tech Note: Sustainable sites

New rating systems will change our ways

The Living Site and Infrastructure Challenge promise to bring many new ideas to the table, thus making a substantial contribution to the evolution of design practice in the coming decade. » Read more

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product focus: Lighting 

Best Practice Embraces Efficiency and Innovation including daylight harvesting

Design of lighting should consider peak consumption periods and length of occupancy in rooms. » Read more

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tech note: water and waste systems

Sustainability performance at the building, neighbourhood and city scale

How water and waste infrastructure strategies at different scales, from the building to the city, can respond to sustainability and other challenges. » Read more

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Tech Note: natural insulation 

Product choices and considerations for energy savings

Insulation can also have a bearing on indoor environmental quality and, according to type, insulation can also offer a multitude of other benefits. » Read more

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Tech Note: green roofs

Basics of a resurgent building technology
If designed, detailed and installed by competent professionals green roofs can provide significant benefits not only to the building envelope but to the ecology of its surroundings. » Read more

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Tech Note: CONTROLS FOR BUIDING HVAC & LIGHTING

The basics on the all-important “nerve centre”
Controls are the brains of a building and are responsible for the performance of the mechanical and lighting systems.

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Tech Note: design for disassembly

Early planning means an economic afterlife for buildings
The traditional model for the design,
construction, operation, decommissioning, ...
 
 
 

 

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