Sentence examples for passive environmental from inspiring English sources

With passive environmental design at the core, the buildings were south-facing, their thick concrete apses oriented to soak up the winter sun, while providing shade during the sweltering summer.

For example, before the advent of airconditioning in the 1960s, structures made do with passive environmental control from cross-ventilation windows to shutters, awnings and masonry that helped keep out the sun.

To achieve low and zero net energy performance objectives in buildings, designers must make optimal use of passive environmental design strategies.

On the other hand, parameters for bacterial FPRs are consistent with passive environmental reorganisation movements dominating the HT coordinate and no contribution of DAD sampling or gating fluctuations.

Traces of nicotine and/or tobacco-related alkaloids were detected in 23% of the samples, with prevalence of "active" nicotine consumption (cf. passive environmental exposure) immediately prior to and/or during sport practice determined at 15%[20]].

Case studies presented are a mixture of adopting passive environmental design strategies and integration of renewable systems as a signal of the corporate ethical commitment to minimizing their building's carbon footprint.

The only thing that makes it difficult here is that courts have become very passive in environmental law.

Case reports, non-English publications and those, which only involved passive or environmental smoke information, were excluded.

Other studies have demonstrated that women exposed to active and/or passive smoking (environmental tobacco smoke exposure) throughout pregnancy show significantly larger birth weight decrements compared with women who reduced exposure early in the pregnancy (Dejmek et al. 2002).

We were also able to quantify the effect of passive or environmental smoking, and found it to be associated with an increase in risk of still birth by 30% (table 1)—an effect corresponding to the 23% reported in a recent meta analysis of four trials.

But it is important for Bangladeshis to recognize that we are not just passive victims of environmental calamity, but active agents in creating a sustainable future.