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Clean Air as a Public Health Strategy: What are the Priorities?
“Ventilation systems are critical to maintaining the health, comfort, and performance of people in buildings. Recently, the pandemic, risk of wildfire, and other contingencies made clean air in buildings salient to the public in a way it had never been before. Facility owners, standards bodies, and organizations managing building rating systems took note and took…
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Biomimicry When Applied to Buildings
I was surfing the US DOE the other day and learned that one of the areas of research they’re working on tackles the problem of all the energy used to condition all this space when the human body occupies only a small fraction of said space. This is where biomimicry comes into the picture. Biomimicry…
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Climate Zone Map Updated for the First Time in Nearly 20 Years
Every three years, the International Code Council (ICC) updates the building codes in the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). Changes to the IECC come from ICC staff, industry groups, government, and the general public. The IECC is the model energy code in the U.S., and updates to the 2021 edition were finalized by ICC in…
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Vinyl Windows, Whether Recycled or Not, Are Unsustainable. Period.
by Christian Stalberg & Duncan Rowe (originally published at Linkedin) In this article we have reviewed the sustainable use of polyvinyl plastics particularly as a material used in uPVC window frames. As mature students of the Masters Degree in Biomimicry at the Arizona State University in the US we applied, compared and contrasted the claims…
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How to Ensure Real Energy Savings When Rebuilding
The fires in California destroyed many homes and except for a few home sites that may be abandoned for one reason or another, most of these will be rebuilt. Out of the disaster arises an opportunity to design and build replacement homes that are not only more energy efficient than the homes that were lost…
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Roedingsmarkt 20 Achieves LEED Silver
Roedingsmarkt 20 – a 115,000 square foot office building located in Hamburg, Germany – achieved LEED Silver under Core and Shell. Enersim, Ltd. did the energy modeling for the project.
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Isagen S.A. Achieves LEED Gold
Isagen S.A. – one of the largest producers and distributors of electricity in Colombia – has a new corporate headquarters. Located in Medellin. The building achieved a LEED Gold rating by the USGBC by deploying a number of building operation conservation measures including: •fixed and movable shading •daylight harvesting •occupancy sensors controlling lights and HVAC…
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LEED Gold Awarded to Torre Grupo Sura
A 76,592 square foot multistory high-rise located in Medellin, Colombia for the Grupo Suramericana SA insurance company. Certified Gold under LEED-NC v2009 in 2014. Extraordinary energy savings were achieved through use of fixed shading devices and lighting controls including motion sensors, dimmers and timers for all workstations. Enersim, Ltd. performed the whole building energy modeling…
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Edificio Record
A 14,467 square foot multistory high-rise office complex located in Antioquia, Colombia for Grupo Record. Currently under review for LEED-NC v2009. Enersim, Ltd. performed the whole building energy modeling for the project.
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Incolmotos Yamaha Gains LEED Gold
The Yamaha Corporation’s new building in Medellin, Colombia was recently granted LEED Gold by the USGBC. The building is multipurpose and includes a museum, offices and an auditorium. Enersim, Ltd. performed the energy modeling for the project.