Sentence examples for building consumes from inspiring English sources

The big issue for Foster, like many museum directors, is the electricity the building consumes.

Ed Quiroz, a regulatory analyst with the California Public Utilities Commission, said a typical commercial office building consumes 10 to 15 watts a square foot.

I suppose location might be a bit tricky if demand is very high (nobody, I suggest, is much going to want to underpin the floor of the men's lavatory, however necessary this part of the building is to a satisfactory theatrical experience) but given the amount of concrete a building consumes it shouldn't be a problem – and it's probably greener too.

"This map will enable New York City building owners to see whether their own building consumes more or less than what an average building with similar function and size would," said Vijay Modi, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia and a co-author of the study that yielded the map.

While exact definitions vary, the concept is that the total energy a building consumes annually is equal to or less than the amount of energy it creates.

Since structural components that are used in retrofitting the building consumes natural resources and responsible for energy consumption, sustainability criteria should be directly included in the retrofitting requirements.

Building construction consumes large amount of energy and material.

For example, wood-based building construction consumes 3800 gigajouls (GJ) of total energy whereas steel and concrete based structure consumes 7350 and 5500 GJ energy, respectively.

The members of Ladder Company 44 were the first to arrive at the blaze in the Morrisania section Saturday night, and they confronted a five-story building consumed in flames, fire officials said.

The study building consumed electricity as convectional energy, which only accounted for about one-third of the total energy supplied for heating.

Heating and cooling of residential buildings consumes around ten percent of the world's energy.