The GLA's retrofitting scheme is set to save the public sector £6m and 36,000 tonnes of carbon by 2015.
As public sector organisations face a period of unsurpassed austerity, managers are bombarded with directives to not only cut costs and improve efficiency, but to reduce carbon emissions and lower energy consumption at the same time.
En el marco del proyecto europeo CITyFiED cuyo propósito es desarrollar una estrategia replicable, sistemática e integrada para convertir ciudades europeas y ecosistemas urbanos en las ciudades inteligentes del futuro.
Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology.
After recently raising $18 million in Series B funding, the healthtech company also plans to add new products as it expands nationally among U.S. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday. Smith, who joined the West institute as chief medical and science officer in 2010, took over as Reflexion’s interim CEO in December. The role became permanent in March.
The current system of certifying buildings according to their energy performance is beset by patchy enforcement, wildly-varying certificate costs, a laissez-faire attitude towards displaying information, and a lack of trained inspectors, according to the preliminary findings of a study by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE).
Countries in the EU are obliged to label all public authority buildings and properties bought, sold or rented for their efficiency standards under the Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD), so providing information about the likely range of future energy bills.
Los vecinos del número 15 de la calle de La del manojo de rosas de Madrid, en el barrio de Ciudad de los Ángeles, llevan años perdiendo calor por las ventanas. Y por los muros, el tejado, los cimientos. El edificio, construido en la década de los cincuenta del siglo pasado, “es como un radiador que emite constantemente energía al exterior. Un derroche”, asegura el arquitecto José Luis López. Pero tiene remedio. “Aislamiento de lana vertical de ocho centímetros, reforma de la cubierta, ventanas y contraventanas más eficientes, renovación de las instalaciones eléctricas y centralización de calderas.
Buildings use more energy than any other sector and therefore are a prime focus of efforts to save energy. A new IEA publication shows how improvements to the building envelope – the parts of a building that form the primary thermal barrier between interior and exterior – can cut the sector’s total consumption by almost 20%.
