He and Schoettler have also been making related bets for years, including investing in Sphero (in their capacity as investors at Shea) and, more recently, under the Calibrate banner, funding Built Robotics, which retrofits construction equipment with the same sensor technology used in autonomous vehicles.
We review briefly the context of existing building retrofit design and construction in China.
The Installation & Other Services segment sells installed building products and distributes building products primarily to the new home construction market, and, to a lesser extent, the retrofit and commercial construction markets, throughout the U.S.
According to incomplete survey, there are 400~600 billion m2 existing buildings in China and only less than 10% can be rated as the energy efficiency building, with considerable interest and activity in green retrofit design and construction.
Especially for building retrofit many assumptions on construction, material etc. have to be taken, which increases the uncertainty of simulation results.
Four strategies are defined according to the spatial scale of implementation and the moment of RWH infrastructure construction (building/neighbourhood scale and retrofit action vs. new construction).
Specimen construction details, retrofit procedures, test set-up and results are presented herein.
The design can be used as a reference for new industrial construction or retrofit applications.
Thus, in both cases of new construction and retrofit, their proper energy design and management are a critical issue, because these must consider all levers of energy performance, from the building envelope to the operation and efficiency of energy systems.
