“GSA Design Excellence Awards” Honored 18 Projects

U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in their biennial program, in its 17th year,has honoured 18 prjects out of reviewed 120 projects in recognition for remarkable performance. There were 17 categories like “architecture, preservation, engineering, art, workplace environment, urban design, sustainability” and construction with Eligiblity criteria was  authorisation by GSA and the projects completed between January 1, 2001, [...]

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Waste:Future Source of Power?

Scientific American: Waste to Watts: Portable Refinery Transforms Trash into Power
Kitchen trash stinks, unless it can be turned into electricity, starting in Army field kitchens. A kind of “hybrid refinery” to  process the waste into fuel which will runa standard diesel generator is being discussed.This is worth reading.

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“The Future of Coal – Options for a Carbon Constrained World”:An interdisciplinary MIT study

As per the recent press notice ,Interdisciplinary MIT faculty group has announced a report.This report, “the future of coal in a carbon-constrained world”,has  evaluated the technologies and economics for  generation of electricity using coal,taking in to consideration issues connected with  the capture and sequestration of the Co2 emissions resulted by coal-based power generation. National and international  increased electricity demand need increase in [...]

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“Green” Building of Heifer International:Recycled content of building materials

 The new “green” headquarters building of Heifer International, a non profit organization has been designed to meet U.S. Green Building’s Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification standards.Major portion of the building materials contained recycled content.Alcoa’s Kawneer Architectural Products were reported to have been used.The project got Completed in early 2006, and is expected to get [...]

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Solar Energy Conversion: Opportunities to Increase, a discussion

The solar energy has the capability of reducing the GHG emissions and providing increased energy efficiency as per recent report.The important concern for the research is the increasing the conversion efficiency.Source:Argonne National laboratory. The news and trends are here. http://www.eponline.com

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