LEDs offer many benefits in terms of energy efficiency, but as a new technology, they also carry some risk. Learning more about the technology can help avoid pitfalls.
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01-04-2013
Radiant floor heating can provide cost savings and comfort in those hard-to-condition commercial places.
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11-18-2011
The adaptive reuse of a Bauhaus-influenced building at the Georgia Institute of Technology includes careful treatment of the building envelope and innovative mechanical systems.
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Big glass panels that are built into skyscrapers could soon produce solar power.
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These celebrity-owned dwellings sport the latest in green building technology.
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One of the most intriguing dimensions of nanoscale research concerns the blurring between matter and energy, says Blaine Brownell. A new super light absorber could be applied to energy-harvesting and sensing techniques.
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The U.S. General Services Administration is gathering info for its Green Proving Ground program that examines sustainable building technologies and practices for federal buildings.
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08-01-2011
A 2003 AIA COTE Top Ten project, the Chicago Center for Green Technology may have helped kick-start the city's green-building boom.
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Student Daniel Tomicek has developed a sensor that uses the kinetic energy created by an earthquake to monitor and report damage to buildings and infrastructure without needing electrical energy, Blaine Brownell reports.
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If you've ever dinged your smartphone or laptop, then you might be interested in self-repairing plastic that behaves more like human skin, developed by scientists at Stanford University.
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