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Study Shows More Home Builders Adopting Green Building Practices, Products

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are increasingly adopting sustainable building products and practices that conserve water, energy, and materials.

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Why Pay Attention to HVAC Faults? System Performance Depends on It

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But while the efficiency of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment has improved across the board, improper installation or commissioning can result in HVAC system faults that compromise HVAC performance and reduce energy efficiency. Department of Energy's (DOE) Building America program , points out.

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Code Compliance & Beyond: Upping Baseline Building Energy Performance

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This directly translates to building energy codes. In the United States, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning (ASHRAE) and International Code Council (ICC) primarily lead the efforts to develop energy codes, with help from the U.S. And, the result of this baseline?

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Dept. of Energy issues model energy code determinations for commercial, residential buildings

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Department of Energy has issued pre-publication Federal Register notice regarding updated model building energy codes. The 2021 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) and ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2019 2019 will increase energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings, the notice says.

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High-performance building envelopes

Construction Specifier

Deep energy renovations of commercial and multi-unit residential buildings are critical if cities want to tackle their climate emissions on a large scale. Energy renovation could provide up to 55 percent of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions needed to meet 2030 targets, aligning cities with a 1.5 Photo courtesy ROCKWOOL.

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Retrofitting Europe’s Homes: How Digital Construction can Support Greener, Affordable Housing

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In Scotland, a large number of tenement houses were built a century ago in the wake of the first world war, before energy efficiency was a consideration. In 2019, 30% of the residents of these tenements were classed as fuel poor , meaning they pay more than 10% of their disposable income on heating.

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Air curtains effectiveness: Preventing wildfire smoke ingress at doorways

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They are economical, easy-to-install, carry short paybacks in energy savings, and provide an effective means of preventing wildfire smoke ingress through building doorways. Figure 2b: Studies prove air curtains installed above doorways are more energy efficient than vestibules. Air curtains may be a piece of the solution.