What do turf wars, battle lines, and tug of war have in common? They are all being mentioned by people involved in the creation of two rival commercial HVAC load calculation standards, one from the ...

Green Toolbox 5.0 is a software program that contains 25 simple HVAC and related industries green building utilities. They are designed for sizing ductwork, sizing piping, calculating cooling and ...

Construction professionals are calling for the communities department to publish the calculation methodology that will enable designers to meet the 2010 Building Regulations announced last week The ...

Building services consultancy Roberts & Partners is offering an emissions calculation service using 3D computer modelling. The service aims to assist designers faced with incorporating Part L2 ...

There is often a major disconnect between the actual performance of some buildings and the predicted design stage calculations. Not only is this detrimental to the UK’s ability to deliver its binding ...

Although the theory of lattice dynamics was established six decades ago, its accurate implementation for polar solids using the direct (or supercell, small displacement, frozen phonon) approach within ...

Back to the drawing board on house building calculations, admits Blears The government has been forced to redraw plans that set out how it would hit its house building target of 240,000 new homes a ...