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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Commercial building"”.
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Impact of advanced energy recovery system on light commercial building
Commercial buildings such as educational and commercial offices require large amounts of fresh air to maintain the indoor air quality as required by the building codes. This raises the energy costs of the buildings, especially when the number of occupants are large. In order to reduce the energy …
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Motivating and Quantifying Energy Efficient Behavior among Commercial Building Occupants
… global carbon emissions. In the United States, buildings account for over 40% of all domestic and 7.4% of all global CO2 emissions and therefore represent an important target for energy conservation initiatives. Even marginal energy savings across all buildings could have a profound effect on …
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Application of DMAIC to improve energy consumption in a commercial building
Submitted for the fulfilment of the requirement for Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Economic analysis of solar assisted absorption chiller for a commercial building
… use of solar energy for heating and cooling of building space as well as generate electric power. The most common components employed for collection of solar energy are the flat plate and evacuated tube collectors that produce hot water that can be employed for heating the building space. In …
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The Effects of Handover Information Quality on Commercial Building Asset Management
Deficiencies in building handover information, which encapsulates essential building information reflecting the scope of the building project, present a significant challenge within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Investigations into catastrophic building failures …
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Active power ancillary service provision of commercial building energy storage resources
… thesis is to propose new control strategies of building energy storage systems and analyze their effects on operations of power grids and electricity markets. Specifically, novel control schemes of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and variable speed heat pumps (VSHPs) are proposed to improve …
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Study, modeling and analysis of heat pumping solutions in a commercial building
… Energy Agency – Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems) Annex48: “Heat Pumping and Reversible Air Conditioning”. The aim of this work is to study the possibility of integration of a reversible heat pumping system into the existing HVAC system of a “commercial” building …
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Economics of using biomass electric power for energy application of light commercial building
… use of the state of art technology in gasifiers. Commercial units recently placed in the market have a potential of using the energy available in the biomass in producing electric power as well as in meeting the other building loads most efficiently, with negligible environmental effect. Woody …
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Improving the use of commercial building HVAC systems for electric grid ancillary services
… often provided through ancillary services. Buildings can play a significant role in meeting this challenge by providing ancillary services with their HVAC systems. However, use of commercial HVAC systems in this way comes with significant challenges, which relate to interactions between the …
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Exploring the potential of the suburban commercial building : nurturing our paths and places
In the advancement of commercial and economic interests, modern society continually litters the earth's landscapes with insensitive buildings. When I speak of the environment I mean not only the landscape in which the building sits, but also the environment of the people within the space. This lack …
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Influence of BREEAM on commercial building users of small and medium enterprises in refurbished buildings
… there are over 550,000 BREEAM certified buildings with over 2 million registered globally (NBS, 2016). According to Rhodes, C, Ward, M (2020) there are 5.9million Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the UK with many of them looking more to BREEAM for a myriad of reasons including …
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Establishing energy benchmarks for commercial buildings in the City of Cape Town
… relating to energy efficiency in their commercial building stock, but no clear strategy for tackling existing buildings. This research redresses this by examining international approaches to the benchmarking process and applies these in the context of South Africa.
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Energy Profiling of the Prevalent Commercial Buildings in Specific Postal Districts: Potential application to GIS
… the contribution that the most<br/>prevalent commercial buildings within the city centre postcode areas of two Scottish cities make to electrical energy usage and thereby their carbon dioxide emission. Using the Scottish Assessors Association produced information about the rateable sites, …
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An authentic sustainable future : a case study of the Bullitt Center
… Center sought to achieve the goals of the Living Building Challenge and ultimately become the first largest commercial building to achieve this green rating system. The findings from this study ultimately point to a system thinking approach and regenerative methods. This understanding leads to a …
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Material impacts on operational energy usage
… regarding materials and construction of a building are made all the time in the architectural process, but thought is not always given to how those choices may affect the buildings ultimate energy usage and the impact they may have on climate change. This thesis focuses on concrete …
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Intensifying the collective use of public place
… of an outdoor public plaza, the configuration of buildings that defines it, and their relationship to an existing public path. These buildings include a learning center and dorm, a commercial building, and a subway station.
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Peering In: Improving Existing Buildings with Colorful Increments
<p>Existing office buildings’ embodied energy, history and culture offer something a newly constructed building cannot. On the other hand, new office buildings’ adoption of new technologies and building philosophies offer a range of sustainable efficiencies previously unavailable. Combining these …
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The architecture of convention hotels in the United States, 1940-1976
The convention hotel emerged as a distinct building type in the years of the Second World War and its aftermath. The earliest examples of convention hotels were distinguished from their pre-war counterparts by the design of their meeting facilities and the layout of public areas. In these projects, …
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