When the 456-meter-tall Kunming Junfa Dongfeng Square tower opens in Kunming City, China, in mid-2017, it will stand as one of the world’s tallest naturally ventilated buildings. Roughly ...

There’s a debate within the multifamily building community as to the best way to ventilate residential buildings. There are three competing design options that can be implemented in residential design ...

Tougher environmental regulations are pushing for more energy efficient coal plants. Every kilowatt counts, and the boiler building ventilation system can free up many of them. With the final Clean ...

In certain parts of the country, working inside of a power plant during summer can be very challenging on both personnel and equipment. Also, the higher you go inside a power plant, the hotter it gets ...

The HouseZero project is an extreme retrofit of an existing building, the home of The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). According ...

A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports Cambridge university ...

One of the compelling ways to improve air quality as well as lower the energy costs in your home is through natural ventilation. If you have been having a lot of heat in your home, where you have to ...

MOTIVATION: Ventilation is an essential element of almost any firefighting operation. Removal of smoke, heat, and hot gases can make is easier to see potential victims, reduce potential harm to ...

Ventilation is required to provide fresh air to the occupants of buildings, primarily to remove body odours and carbon dioxide from breath. This requirement is an order of magnitude greater?than the ...

Does living without air conditioning sound too difficult? Learn from old home design techniques to save energy and money while relying less on air conditioning. Most people have limited tolerance for ...