Sentence examples for an improved building from inspiring English sources

Mr. James pointed out the contrast between the boarded-up five-story building at 2037 Third Avenue and a building next door that had been power-washed and given new windows, showing that an improved building could be fully occupied.

The main purpose of this paper is to develop an improved building sustainability assessment framework to measure and integrate different sustainability factors, i.e. long-term environmental upstream and downstream impacts and associated socio-economic costs, in a unified and quantitative basis.

This paper describes an integrated passive design approach to reduce the cooling requirement for high-rise apartments through an improved building envelope design.

But would that be a new direction, or the same failed strategy in a new and improved building?

The paper includes a brief discussion of improved building codes in Florida potentially reducing disaster losses by over 40percentt, but suggests that "As strong codes have only been implemented in recent years and in some cases vary significantly on a county-by-county basis, their effect on overall losses is unlikely to be large".

Adaptation to heat events can be improved by adjusting indoor temperature through improved building design so that the indoor temperature is more often in a comfortable range regardless of the outdoor temperature.

It presumes that improving the use of design tools will lead to improved building performance.

However, this speculation is not substantiated with any sort of analysis, does not include areas outside of Florida, and does not include mitigation measures other than improved building codes.

The commission said the new rules, which require approval by the City Council to take effect, are in response to improved building materials and outdoor advertising techniques that have led to large signs on water tanks, rooftops and the facades of tall buildings, sometimes within sight of residential neighborhoods.

To the Editor: Your editorial about the report from the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force hit the nail on the head: better preparation for increasingly stronger hurricanes and other climate-change-related events must include risk-based flood insurance rates, flood maps that reflect increasing hazards and improved building codes.

The need for improved building performance is global and has led to numerous international collaborations.