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Clothes-drying solutions – no matter the weather
Traditional clothes-drying methods are often slow, costly, and energy-intensive. Munters’ advanced desiccant dehumidification technology offers a fast,…
November 2024
Smart water management with BlueEdge™
Badger Meter is a water technology innovator with more than a century of experience serving municipal, commercial…
October 2024
How using turmeric waste as biomass cut carbon emissions by 60%
In 2018, GSH Group India won a major environmental award for a project with FMCG firm Kaleesuwari to replace coal with turmeric and mixed biomass at…
March 2019
Researching new methods for estimating design water flowrate
It is recognised that using the traditional loading units method overestimates the design flow for hot and cold water systems. Heriot-Watt University’s Achala Wickramasinghe explains…
March 2019
Silent treatment: acoustic design in an open plan school
The design brief for Trumpington Community College was for open teaching spaces overlooking a large, airy atrium. The challenge for Max Fordham’s acoustic engineers was…
March 2019
To close the performance gap, choose Option D
IPMVP Option D offers robust measurement and verification to give building services engineers and their clients a better insight into how a design energy performance…
March 2019
Hotel study reveals predicted hot water use is double the reality
Analysis of two hotels by Elementa Consulting revealed that actual hot-water use is around half of what systems are capable of supplying. Elementa’s David Glossop…
March 2019
Countdown to zero – Leti roadmap to zero carbon buildings by 2030
The London Energy Transformation Initiative aims to support the construction of zero carbon buildings by 2030. It is creating a roadmap describing how this can…
February 2019
Cost model – battery storage
Advances in battery technology and steep falls in prices for PVs and storage is making smart energy grids an attractive commercial proposition. Aecom’s first cost…
February 2019
Data with destiny – BMS protocols
Building data offers valuable insights into performance, so it is essential protocols are in place to ensure digital information imported from the building management system…
February 2019
Going to any length – chilled beams at Lambeth Civic Centre
Limited space and the need for flexibility helped drive the specification of chilled beams at Lambeth Civic Centre. Frenger’s Michael Ainley explains
February 2019
Key changes in the updated Heat Networks Code of Practice
A major update to the Heat Networks Code of Practice includes key performance outputs that allow clients to check their networks are performing as designed.…
January 2019
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