Underfloor heating

Red, yellow, and orange blended into a single swath of color as I drove north along the Blue Ridge Parkway on an autumn day in Appalachia. I slowed down as I passed by a row of trees noticeably smaller than the rest, reflecting back to what was visible before their growth. Six years ago, as a high school student, I used a graphical information system (GIS) to conduct a viewshed analysis of undesirable vantage points on this scenic byway. Alongside this data I created before and after imagery in…

Some scientist didn’t believe that the popping noise had anything to do with gas bubbles. To follow up on this hypothesis, some scientist used an MRI to prove the “gas bubble theory” wrong. First, scientist had studied 10 joints by using volunteers’ fingers into a tube. They did this so they could apply traction to the joint. They had specifically used the metacarpophalangeal joints because those were the most common joints that people crack. Then, they took images before and after cracking the…

Our Company Description: Group 2 Unlimited LLC. Our product is one of the future and one that can save many young innocent lives. Our product “Child Sense”, is designed to keep the child at a comfortable temperature in a car in both hot and cool temperatures and alert local authorities for rescue in case the child is in danger. This device would start the car and its AC/Heater unit via remote start. It will also be accessed through an app on the phone to alert the authorities in case a situation…

In this generation, criminals are amongst the first to be surrounded by the luxuries that working class people could only dream of. Prisoners in this day and age refuse to see the seriousness of incarceration and quite rightly so as they are blinded by the extensive luxuries that give them the halcyon days that the prisons never intended. The slow repair of the country’s economy is also being hindered by the cost of its prisons; it costs £65,000 to imprison a person in the UK once all necessary…

Great Roman empire also contributed a great deal of great ideas of their time and use today, such as the development of the alphabet, sewers and sanitation, the original concept of “lawyers”, and roads. The Roman Empire did invent “Aqueducts, Underfloor heating, Concrete and the Julian Calendar (which our modern calendar is based on.)” (bbc.com). Concrete played an important part in Roman building, helping them construct structures like aqueducts that included arches (which are still used by…

Roman engineering, development of a Roman art style and reflect a degree of societal structure. These bath houses were widespread throughout the empire; their popularity allows them to act as a symbol to watch the transition of Roman traditions. Heating, tile work and decorative tiles illustrated the ingenuity in engineering and artistic development while the act of bathing exposed the nature of societal structure. The most admirable aspect of the development of Roman…

throughout the community. Biomass boilers are larger, costlier and fuel can be purchased much more cheaply in bulk so they tend to be better suited to a district heating system where adequate storage can be designed in. While not widely implemented throughout the UK we should consider Denmark where 60% of energy is provided through District Heating Systems. Further benefits of these systems are that CO2 emissions are reduced by over 90% when compared to fossil fuel equivalents. The…

also improve the house against heat loss and its acoustic level (Figure: 5). The selected material to use as insulation is made from fiber glass, it offers excellent thermal performance and is made from recycled glass which makes it eco-friendly ("Underfloor & Ceiling Insulation for a Warmer Kiwi Home", 2017). (Figure:…

in size that aqueducts were set up to supply the baths with not only water, but heat. Romans utilized Greek techniques and enhanced them. Water was lead, through pipes, into furnaces which could then warm the baths and support the hypocaust, underfloor, heating. The furnaces were precise in their construction and would allow heat to rise to the tiles above them (Fagan 388). Lastly, bricks were used to supply insulation and windows allowed for the sun to warm the bathers. Hence, the baths reveal…