Sentence examples for standard buildings from inspiring English sources

This has resulted in buildings that use about 50percentt less potable — drinking — water than standard buildings do.

But to Dr. Zhang, standard buildings, with their straight lines and conventional boxy shapes, are "boring," and the more imaginative works like those of Antoni Gaudi and Frank Gehry resonate.

Passive House advocates claim their buildings require 10 to 35 percent as much energy as standard buildings, while others, like Mr. Holladay, put that at closer to 50 percent.

Category B represents standard buildings with thermal insulation built according to the National Building Code D3.

The shortage of proper simulation programs for the preliminary design of sustainable construction prevents in fact the application of these systems in the contemporary construction market, oftentimes producing higher design costs and construction durations that exceed those of comparable standard buildings.

In 2009, CBRE and the University of San Diego surveyed managers of companies who had moved from standard buildings into more-efficient buildings (as qualified by an ENERGY STAR label or LEED certification).

In a town where the standard building type is a two-storey house clad in corrugated steel, it stands out.

While working on some houses at Cote Hill, Heagan deliberately angers the city building inspector, Larry Magnin, by nailing off plywood at nine-inch intervals, rather than the standard building-code interval of six to eight inches.

"We've tried to create a value standard, building price to quality," he says.

Damping uncertainty is addressed for the natural damping associated with standard building construction materials.

According to this standard, building quick lime is graded into premium, first-class and satisfied.