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Implementing an ‘asset drawdown strategy’ for site decarbonization

BD+C

Office Buildings Engineers M/E/P Systems Reconstruction & Renovation Resiliency Sustainable Design and Construction The trend toward building electrification in commercial properties with a view toward decarbonization is increasingly at the forefront of the effort to mitigate climate change. However, the average U.S.

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Commercial Construction Checklist: How to Ensure a Stalled Project Site is Safe and Ready to Rebound

HardHatChat

An idle commercial construction site is just begging to be explored by anyone from the curious passerby, to kids or even vandals and thieves. And while the lights might still be on at the project to ward off vandals, there should be no live, exposed wires or open electrical panels. Distressed hotel construction.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

It also includes greenhouse gases that come from producing the goods or services that the individual uses, including emissions from power plants that make electricity, factories that make products, and landfills where trash gets sent. Natural emissions of N 2 O are mainly from bacteria breaking down nitrogen in soils and the oceans.

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Electrical Contractors Have Unique Bookkeeping Needs

Contractor Bookkeeping

Electrical Contractors Have Unique Bookkeeping Needs : Not Just Any Bookkeeper Will Do - Too often electrical contractors hire the wrong bookkeeper mistakenly believing all bookkeepers are the same. Electrical Contractors - Need people trained in construction bookkeeping not someone with experience in regular bookkeeping.

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Top tips for reducing warehouse maintenance costs

GCP Applied Technologies

Taking proactive steps at addressing maintenance issues can help keep the site operating at full capacity, avoid production delays, protect product inventory, reduce operating costs and minimize accidents. . The following tips will help protect your facility, equipment and inventory. Commercial buildings. DUCTILCRETE.

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

Don’t put a window if you have to move something else to do so, and don’t add electrical where you have to dig up existing pieces of the structure. The inventory requirements of big-box retail and malls make these facilities ideal structures for adaptive reuse. From the beginning, it’s important to look for ways to be frugal.

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Factors driving cold storage warehouse construction costs

The Korte Company

Today, most commercial refrigeration systems are powered by anhydrous ammonia cooling units. It also puts a bigger strain on the electrical grid, which we discuss in the next section. It takes a lot of electricity to operate cold storage warehouses. Powerful ammonia HVAC systems. Owners have a decision to make here.