Retrofitting for Energy Conservation

Retrofitting for Energy Conservation
Author: William H. Clark (II)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1997
Genre: House & Home
ISBN:

Convert residences and light-commercial buildings from energy-wasters to energy-efficiency. New remodelling codes require improvements in energy efficiency. Home and building owners want to reduce their energy costs. And now with Retrofitting for Energy Conservation, construction and design professionals can discover the most up-to-date plans, methods, tools, and materials for improving energy conservation in existing structures. Almost 85% of energy-conserving projects are retrofits, according to the National Association of Homebuilders. Retrofitting for Energy Conservation gives you the tools you need to meet this demand with step-by-step help in retrofitting any residence or light commercial building for energy savings. From assessing the challenge and offering the client options through initial project design and final execution of the building plan, this book gives you solutions that meet and exceed code requirements.

International Conference on Mechanics and Materials Engineering (ICMME 2014)

International Conference on Mechanics and Materials Engineering (ICMME 2014)
Author:
Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2014-06-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1605951773

The conference aims to provide an excellent international academic forum for all the researchers, practitioner, students and teachers in related fields to share their knowledge and results in theory, methodology and application on mechanics and materials engineering. ICMME2014 features unique mixed topics of Mechanics, Materials Science and Materials Processing Technology, Emerging materials and other related ones. The ICMME2014 proceeding tends to collect the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and worldwide state-of-art knowledge on mechanics and materials engineering. All the accepted papers have been submitted to strict peer-review by 2–4 expert referees, and selected based on originality, significance and clarity for the purpose of the conference. The conference program is extremely rich, profound and featuring high-impact presentations of selected papers and additional late-breaking contributions. We sincerely hope that the conference would not only show the participants a broad overview of the latest research results on related fields, but also provide them a significant platform for academic connection and exchange.

Roadmapping Future

Roadmapping Future
Author: Tuğrul U. Daim
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030505022

This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services. It provides a brief overview on criteria or metrics used for evaluating the success level of TRM and then offers six case examples from sectors such as transportation, smart technologies and household electronics. A new innovation in this book is a section of detailed technology roadmap samples that technology managers can apply to emerging technologies.

Sustainable Development, International Aviation, and Treaty Implementation

Sustainable Development, International Aviation, and Treaty Implementation
Author: Armand L.C. de Mestral
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107153115

The international community has succeeded in developing rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere from international civil aviation. This book examines the development of international law and policy in an area that has remained largely outside the general framework of international environmental law.

2021 International Energy Conservation Code

2021 International Energy Conservation Code
Author: International Code Council
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781609839611

The 2021 IECC addresses energy efficiency on several fronts including cost, energy usage, use of natural resources and the impact of energy usage on the environment.

China, Oil and Global Politics

China, Oil and Global Politics
Author: Philip Andrews-Speed
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136732357

This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour. It draws together the various dimensions of China’s international energy strategy, and provides insights into the impact of this on China’s growing presence across the world.