Copenhagen Towers is a sustainable building, designed to minimize its environmental impact and provides
a healthy indoor climate for greater comfort and satisfaction.
Sustainability is about ...
When sailors return from the cold clear waters of the Grimwith Reservoir, especially in spring and autumn, they are in need of a hot shower. The hot water they use will have been generated using ...
Over 90% of all building projects of the diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart with an annual investment from about 40 million Euros are for renovating existing buildings. With the retrofitting of the ...
This 85 m2 house, built in the sixties, has been renovated and extended up to 135 m2. Renovation includes increased thermal insulation of the facades (oudoor insulation) and of the roof, the ...
This 200 m2 building in Anet, near Dreux, France, is the show-room of a renewable HVAC systems installer. The structure of the building uses wood-frame with insulation by straw bales. Heating is ...
This high school, the Lycée Kyoto in Poitiers, France, is presented as the first "100% clean energy" high school in Europe. Built by the Region Poitou-Charentes, the high insulated 16500 m2 ...
Tesco, the world's third-largest retailer, opened a new store (december 2009) in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, that is the first zero-carbon store of this company. It uses a biofuel ...
Red Kite House is a three-storey office building in South East England with a total floor area
of 2 500 m². Each floor is mainly open-plan office area with some meeting and other rooms.
Figure 1 ...
The Frederick Lanchester Library forms part of Coventry University. It has a gross floor area of
9 100 m² and is unusual in that, although it is a deep-plan building occupying a 50 m by 50 ...
Space heating is provided by high efficiency gas-fired boilers supplying a compensated radiator
circuit. Local zone control is obtained using two-port valves. The boilers also supply ...
