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Temple of Light in the Andean Foothills

(Issue of a magazine 1/2018, page 106)

The Bahá’í Temple of South America, or house of worship, in Santiago, Chile, was built more than ten years, and over these years has been awarded numerous awards. In 2017, he received two top awards for innovative design: AIA Innovation Awards and RAIC Innovation in Architecture Award. These awards highlight outstanding achievements in the field of new methods of design and application of advanced construction technologies that allow efficient operation of buildings throughout the life cycle.

Active Energy Building Spreads Its Wings

(Issue of a magazine 1/2018, page 114)

Over the last decades, urban agglomerations have been very successful in absorbing population growth and drawing in rural population. They are home to more than 50 percent of the world’s population. Today’s cities are responsible for 75 percent of the world’s energy consumption and are emitting 80 percent of man-made carbon dioxide. Acknowledging these facts and facing the process of rapid urbanization, demands for new strategies reducing CO₂ emissions and energy consumption. As one possible answer to this urgent questions falkeis.architects developed and realized the first ‘active energy building’. The project is the winning entry of an internationally invited competition for an apartment building in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. 

Green Roof System with Energy Efficient Features

(Issue of a magazine 4/2017, page 120)

Today, due to the crisis of energy and excessive pollution of the ecological environment, human is seeking for some methods to minimize the consumed energy, maximizing the adaptation with the environment. One of the important parts of building which is exposed to the environment (wind, sun, and rain) is roof. Roof can be known as a potential place for meeting essential needs in the building, but in this age people does not consider. In this article a new kind of roof was presented, which was filled as a patent in United stated America. This invention can be a solution for correct different problems that people have faced in the building, besides it can be beneficial for the environment. 

MULTI – New Era of Mobility in Buildings

(Issue of a magazine 3/2017, page 118)

ThyssenKrupp unveils world’s first cable-free, horizontal-vertical elevator. The elevator was invented over 160 years ago, and engineering firm ThyssenKrupp evidently thinks it’s time to shake things up a bit. They’ve designed the MULTI: a rope-less horizontal-vertical system that’s drawn comparisons to Willy Wonka’s crazy sideways-moving elevator. And now they’ve brought their designs from paper into the real world at an 807-foot-high test tower in Rottweil, Germany.

Carrier: How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Hotels

(Issue of a magazine 2/2017, page 114)

In this article we continue to share details of Carrier program “Energy Saving in Hotels”, started in a series of previous publications of Green Buildings magazine. The purpose of this program is to increase the energy efficiency of cooling centers and reduce energy consumption, taking into account the actual loads, climatic and working conditions of hotel buildings operation. Now we will talk about the automation and dispatching UTC CCS WebCTRL system, which allows you to easily manage the building’s engineering systems, including refrigeration center equipment via using the Plant System Manager program. 

3M High Technology on the Guard of Ecology

(Issue of a magazine 2/2017, page 118)

The world-major capitals, cities of the future, respectable offices and apartments are tightly associated in our mind with modern wonders of the world – skyscrapers. Glass skyscraper with panoramic windows flooded with light is a completely new concept of construction, forming specific subvariety of engineering tasks. When meeting these challenges, architects and design engineers face a number of problems starting with a foundation (the world-tallest skyscraper Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE, weighs over 10 thousand tons) and ending with telecommunications inside the building (maximum signal transmission distance is only 20m for traditional copper communication lines and 300m for optical lines, while super high skyscrapers are much taller). That is why high-rise buildings are distinguished by a wide range of the most advanced materials and design peculiarities.  

Mitsubishi Electric: The World’s First Real-Time Crowd Simulator

(Issue of a magazine 4/2016, page 118)

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has jointly developed what is believed to be the world’s first system that analyzes data from surveillance cameras for high-accuracy real-time estimation and prediction of crowd congestion on pathways to and from event sites, working in collaboration with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of Tokyo University (RCAST). As a solution for effectively managing crowd congestion based on highly accurate prediction, it is hoped that the technology will contribute to increased visitor safety and security at events.

Carrier: How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Hotels

(Issue of a magazine 3/2016, page 120)

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Carrier: How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Hotels

(Issue of a magazine 2/2016, page 118)

In the previous issue of Green Building magazine we started a story of the program launched by Carrier – “Energy efficiency in hotels”, aimed to improve energy efficiency Refrigerant centers and reduction of energy costs, taking into account the actual load, climatic and operating conditions of exploitation of hotel buildings. In this article we will focus on the complex of measures to achieve the efficient operation of cooling center in accordance with the actual load on the cooling system of the hotel.

Carrier: How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Hotels

(Issue of a magazine 1/2016, page 116)

Globally, buildings account for 40% of total energy consumption, significantly higher than energy used for transportation or industry. Within buildings, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) takes up the largest slice of the energy consumption. This proportion is approximately 40% in the US and is expected to be much higher in the warmer and more humid tropical weather of South East Asia.