Modern Buildings

While solar power is the best thing for mother earth and the long term bottom line for energy use it does have its own issues. Legionella bacteria are found in water in the natural environment, but it is only in man-made water systems that the bacteria can exist in numbers high enough to cause disease. Controlling its numbers and spread is key for any solar powered building and it is relatively painless too. Make sure that your system is operating at peak efficiency and run the anti-legionella cycle according to your manufacturers suggestions. It all seems easy but it has to be done to make sure everyone stays safe and your solar heat is not wasted.
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Commercial data centers all need stable power and lots of it. They also need back up power and a back up for that power as the information they house is so important and needs to be up all the time. That does not mean that energy consumption should be a second thought. The North London Data Centre of Fujitsu became only fully certified Tier III data centre in Europe but it also has less than half the M&E services energy consumption of standard designs of such buildings. The company spent over $44 million pounds to achieve the certification but the designer believes it was all worth it and hopes other data centers follow suit.

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The idea of using a cooled beam system in modern buildings is a great way to consume less power and be more eco-friendly. The invention is rather new but one that is sure to become popular quite quickly. Waterloo’s technical manager Wander ter Kuile says that: Chilled beams operate with a chilled-water flow temperature of 14°C, which is inherently more energy-efficient than the 6°C that is typically used with fan-coil units. Indeed, such a high flow temperature might obviate the need for a chiller and certainly increases the viability of geothermal cooling, for example, where the temperature of the ground during a year may not rise above 12°C.’ It sure sounds like the way to go in power savings.

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