In building engineering, a climate-adaptive building shell (CABS) is a façade or roof that interacts with the variability of its environment in a dynamic...
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technologies. When installed in the envelope of buildings, smart glass helps to create climate adaptive building shells, which benefits include things such as...
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resilience and adaptive capacity within the built environment. The adaptive reuse of existing buildings can be adopted to facilitate climate change mitigation...
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Index of construction articles (category Building engineering)
estimator - Cladding (construction) - Clerk of the Works - Climate-adaptive building shell - Climbing formwork - Clinker brick - Close studding - Coastal...
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Responsive architecture (category Building engineering)
by computerized interpreters of the real world conditions. Climate adaptive building shells (CABS) can be identified as a sub-domain of responsive architecture...
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more at risk from climate change and shocks, limits on women's resources and discriminatory gender norms constrain their adaptive capacity and resilience...
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with the speed of the air flowing through the insulation (climate adaptive building shell). Dynamic insulation is different from breathing walls. The...
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energy performance and the prediction of savings debatable. Climate-adaptive building shell Rainscreen Bryan, Harvey (1991). "Le Corbusier and the "Mur...
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mined and used for the construction of a number of buildings in Denham.[full citation needed] Shell Beach Monkey Mia Western Australia Tourism Information...
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Paris Agreement (redirect from Paris Agreement (climate change))
Paris Accords or Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation,...
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Interior architecture (section Adaptive reuse)
the significant revision of an original design for the adaptive reuse of the shell of the building concerned. The latter is often part of sustainable architecture...
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Midden (redirect from Shell mound)
claimed to be middens, but are in fact shell cheniers (beach ridges) re-worked by nest mound-building birds. Some shell middens are regarded as sacred sites...
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buildings. In 2018, the team sued five companies (BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell) for being responsible for climate change...
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Greta Thunberg (category Swedish climate activists)
interviews on climate change with Sir David Attenborough, Bank of England chief Mark Carney, Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja, and Shell Oil executive...
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Italy faces many challenges adapting to climate change including the economic, social, and environmental impacts that climate change creates, and an increasingly...
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LEED (redirect from LEED building)
Sweden. LEED Canada has developed a separate rating system adapted to the Canadian climate and regulations. Many U.S. federal agencies, state and local...
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Climate variability includes all the variations in the climate that last longer than individual weather events, whereas the term climate change only refers...
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Ocean acidification (category Effects of climate change)
"deadly trio" of climate change pressures on the marine environment. The impacts of this will be most severe for coral reefs and other shelled marine organisms...
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Carboniferous (redirect from Carboniferous climate)
life suggest the rapid climate and environmental changes that accompanied the onset of the main glacial phase resulted in an adaptive radiation with a rapid...
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Second and Third Assessment Reports. These corporations include major petroleum companies like Shell, Texaco and BP,...
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Restoring a building for another purpose than its original intent is called adaptive reuse. Financially, businesses are better off restoring a building and adapting...
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Climate change is affecting the environment and human population of the United Kingdom (UK). The country's climate is becoming warmer, with drier summers...
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Cretaceous (redirect from Climate of the Cretaceous)
grebes. Baculites, an ammonite genus with a straight shell, flourished in the seas along with reef-building rudist clams. Inoceramids were also particularly...
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PMID 18213958. "Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change". AdaptiveSilviculture. Retrieved 31 March 2024. "ASCC Network Collaborators". AdaptiveSilviculture...
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2020). "Climate change will make world too hot for 60 per cent of fish species". New Scientist. Retrieved 3 July 2020. FAO (2007) Building adaptive capacity...
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significance of Shuidonggou Locality 12 to studies of hunter-gatherer adaptive strategies in North China during the Late Pleistocene". Quaternary International...
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There are many effects of climate change on oceans. One of the most important is an increase in ocean temperatures. More frequent marine heatwaves are...
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Biophilic design (section Use in building standards)
taken to increase the resilience of the city, Adaptive Capacity - how the community's behaviors will adapt as a result of these physical changes, and Resilient...
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mortar with an oyster shell aggregate. Typically two-story, the houses included cooling porches to accommodate the Florida climate. The style developed...
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