1110, 2017

Saving Home Energy: Renovation or Demolition

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Whopping 42% of Australian landfill waste is from the building sector. During its life cycle all this building waste had consumed energy and once a building gets demolished all this embodied energy goes waste, as well.

The ‘three Rs’ of waste minimisation — reduce, reuse, recycle — should be applied throughout the design and construction process: reduce (or avoid) demand for materials by renovating […]

1010, 2017

Sustainable Cities: Why and How?

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The destiny of mankind is closely linked to the success or failure of human settlements. Many cities and towns have existed continuously for thousand of years. Others have turned into deserts.  They collapsed after destroying the local environments from which they drew their resources, or following a social disaster or war. We must learn lessons […]

810, 2017

Smart City Emergency Response

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Emergency Incidents on-road  affect the flow of traffic. This includes crashes, vehicle breakdowns, debris on the road, incidents in buildings along the busy roads and chemical spills.

The police and emergency services with the safe and timely management of incidents respond as quickly as possible they get the information, including setting up signage and managing traffic […]

510, 2017

Smart Cities: Some ideas for Engineering Professionals

By |October 5th, 2017|Sustainable & Smart Cities|Comments Off on Smart Cities: Some ideas for Engineering Professionals

Growing population, global sustainable development push, service efficiency
demands and technological development have made us to think of not only
developing individual technologies, but also the development of a robust and  integrated mechanism where each urban service component compliments the other in its efficient development.

 

In the near future the major urban challenges will include:

Scarcity of resources
Waste
Growing traffic
Pollution
Efficient […]

210, 2017

Holistic energy view for your homes

By |October 2nd, 2017|PV Solar|Comments Off on Holistic energy view for your homes

Normally, to most of our clients while discussing their house energy understanding does include just two ideas, LED
lighting and PV solar system . Though there is much more to it. Let’s discuss that.
It starts from designing of a house, i.e. how much a house can optimize natural light and thermal
comfort through natural heating, cooling and breeze, i.e. […]