Liberty Global plc (“Liberty Global”) announces environmental targets as part of the company's commitment to Corporate Responsibility (CR). Liberty Global commits to improve the energy efficiency of its electricity consumption by 15% every year through 2020 (in kWh/TB), and be five times more carbon efficient (in metric tons of CO2e/TB) by 2020, using 2012 as our base year.
Student projects (3). EPFL students have come up with two different boats to try to conquer the two rounds of a naval competition whose aim is to build energy-efficient boats. The public event begins today in Lausanne.
The University of Chicago has completed the Warren Woods Ecological Field Station, the first Passive House-certified laboratory in North America and only the fifth worldwide. Built to Passive House standards -- an innovative design process that results in minimal energy requirements for heating and cooling -- the field station and accompanying cabins set a new benchmark for sustainable and energy-efficient educational facilities.
City leaders in Vestavia Hills, Ala., report that replacement of outdated lighting with highly efficient illumination at the city’s sports fields, pool and tennis courts is generating a nearly 50 percent decrease in energy usage.
Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, and the newly merged SUNY CNSE/SUNYIT Chief Executive Officer Alain Kaloyeros today announced a three-way financing agreement for the Zero Energy Nanotechnology (ZEN) building currently under construction on the college’s Fuller Road campus.
Landis+Gyr, the global leader in energy management solutions, will deliver smart meter products and software solutions to energy utility RWE in Poland for installation in residential buildings located in the city of Warsaw. Deliveries are due to start in September, with system installation scheduled for the end of 2014.
Delta Electronics, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions headquartered in Taiwan, today announced its latest high efficiency solutions enabled the “Orchid House”, built by the Unicode team from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), to win the 3rd place “Energy Efficiency Award” at the Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 held at the Chateau de Versailles, France.
With the goal of becoming one of the most energy-efficient multifamily housing buildings in the U.S., the Kiln Apartments building in Portland, Oregon, is pursuing the aggressive “Passive House” standard for energy efficiency. The standard, which originated in Germany, often results in buildings 80 to 90 percent more efficient than the average home in the U.S.
YIT’s housing Project ‘Akacijas’ was rewarded in a category of “the most energy efficient building in Latvia” contest. The competition is organized by the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Latvia, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia and the magazine Buvinzenieris. The competition was organized for the 4th time.
NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday.
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