Passive solar building design

the Industrial Automation, the Drive Technology, the Energy, the Healthcare, and the Building Technologies divisions. In fact, Siemens is the world's leading supplier of innovative and environmentally friendly products and solutions for industrial customers. The German company has committed to a sustainable future; indeed, Siemens has pledged to reduce the energy footprint of its production facilities and buildings. In this regard, Siemens Middle-East Headquarter, in Masdar City, has been…

looking for job opportunities, excellent infrastructure and efficient transport facilities. However, the sprawling nature of expanding cities has taken its toll on surrounding landscapes, with wild plants and animals being replaced with concrete buildings and paved roads. This almost universal approach to urban development is causing humans to lose parts of their local identities, landscapes, biodiversity and environments. The damage to nature is further exacerbate with city-builders often…

falls within the Longbridge area action plan which incorporated a much larger development including housing, retail areas, youth centre, leisure facilities and highway improvements. This incorporated a landscape and environmental action plan so the design had to encompass the overall development brief as well as the specific college brief. * A key theme of the plan is Sustainability and the creation of Sustainable Communities to help feed into Birmingham’s overall Sustainability Plan…

Unique Utopias The idea of an “utopia” is often thought about in one way, without any diversity. This is wrong, as no two utopias are exactly the same. One of the main contributing factors in an utopia is the diversity in which makes each society special. Although Victory City and Sacred Mountain Sanctuary have few similarities such as their societal goals, the two communities are extremely different when it comes to their education systems, their way of life, and their economics. To…

impact the design of durable building. In regards to the laws, many new technologies have come out to make achieving durability easier. “There has never been a greater emphasis on building science and technology than there is today.” (www.eesi.org) The government has made compliance with laws a lot easier by providing funds for new technologies, as well as new science has made compliance with the laws less of a hassle. On the other hand these new technologies don’t allow for harmful buildings to…

Alternative energy includes geothermal power, biomass, hydropower, solar power, and wind…

an executive director to manage the entire agency, plus a chief operating officer to coordinate daily operations. Moreover, the organization utilizes an active representation by acting on behalf of the public to make final decisions; as well as a passive representation by allowing two transitory advisory committees to provide input from the public. Both, the North Jersey advisory committee and the South Jersey committee constitutes fourteen unsalaried members each, where the North Jersey…

Benefits of direct marketing: Buyers • Home shopping- fun, convenient and hassle free, time saving, larger variety. • Comparative shopping possible- browsing through online catalogues. • Somebody else other than buyer can order goods. • Business customers- learn about new products & services- time saved in meeting sales people. Sellers • Buy mailing lists- any group : left handed, overweight, millionaires • Personalize and customize the messages- build continuous relationship with…

Special tools are speci cally designed for the production or processing of particular products or parts and have no signi cant utilitarian value and cannot be adapted to further or different use after changes or improvements are made in the model design of the particular part produced by the special tools. Does not include general purpose small tools such as wrenches and drills, both hand and power-driven, and other general purpose equipment such as conveyors, transfer equipment, and materials…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…