The design of Rotherham's new courthouse adopts passive solar architecture and heat recovery systems in an effort to make the legal process less energy intensive. Stephen Ashley reports.
Patrick Waterfield, Energy Consultant with the EDAS Northern Ireland Regional Centre, examines an issue central to the energy performance of school buildings and also looks at an innovative fabric - Transparent Insulation Material.
In 1989, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation entered into a joint venture initiative to field est three diagnostic devices for oil fired heating equipment. These devices include:
Indoor radon concentrations, radon emanation rates from building surfaces, radioactivity contents of building materials and the indoor gamma dose rates for Hong Kong are all in general higher than values obtained elsewhere. An interesting phenomenon has been noted that the values of indoor radon concentrations and radon emanation rates from building surfaces in Hong Kong tend to decrease with the age of the buildings, while the absorbed gamma dose rate remains about the same.
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