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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"municipal buildings"”.
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The analysis of primary metered half-hourly electricity and gas consumption in municipal buildings.
… technique that was tested for 6 types of municipal buildings. This approach is different from conventional annual benchmarking mainly because it uses electricity and gas data in half-hourly periods, together with outside temperature data. A survey to European local authorities’ metering …
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Benchmarking San Luis Obispo's Municipal Energy Use: An Audit Implementation Plan
… greenhouse gas emissions, is in making buildings more energy efficient. According to the EPA, buildings account for 36 percent of overall energy use in the United States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2013).</p> <p>Although many of these plans set target energy reduction levels …
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Embodied Carbon Reduction in British Columbia Municipalities’ New Residential Development Projects
… change mitigation strategies. British Columbia municipalities (including Vancouver, Port Moody, Nelson, Squamish, Whistler, and Saanich) aspire to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and attain net-zero emissions in municipal operations by 2040. However, current literature falls short of …
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Design-build method viewed by public agencies in southern Nevada compared to Arizona and Utah
… facilities such as community centers, schools, municipal buildings and transportation facilities. The most common construction contracting method being used by local agencies consists of local municipalities hiring a design professional, usually an architect or engineer, under one contract, and …
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(Re)Turn to Stone
… to thousands of medieval churches, from municipal buildings to Soviet housing blocks disguised under stone tiles. Stone is a vital part of the cultural fabric, holding both physical as well as intangible cultural heritage. During a period described as the Dark Age for the Byzantine …