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District heating is being touted as the most economical method for a city to reduce carbon emissions, yet large district heating networks are hard to maintain.

A custom-designed Hurst Boiler 600 BHP Biomass-Waste-Fuel Boiler/Gasifier installed as part of the University of Iowa Green Energy Initiative helped the university win an award from the American Council of Engineering Companies.

In addition to water conservation, ISH Frankfurt will have an Energy section to showcase efficient heating systems and renewable energies.

From the Farmer’s Almanac comes this comparison of wood heat, natural gas, pellet stoves, heating oil furnaces, propane wall furnaces and anthracite coal burners.

Building-science lab houses, also known as pressure houses, are built and outfitted so the entire house becomes a building-science laboratory, demonstrating energy loss issues and other problems faced by those working in energy-efficiency fields.

The use of building information modeling software when designing green projects is increasing as more engineers and mechanical contractors understand how BIM’s energy simulation and prefabrication components enable sustainable outcomes for large projects such as industrial buildings, schools and hospitals.

Viessmann Mfg. Co. (U.S.) has partnered with Lifetime TV’s “Designing Spaces” to produce a segment on energy-efficient home heating.

The Building Performance Institute launched its Building Science Principles Certificate of Knowledge and companion Reference Guide, responding to strong demand for a method of verifying basic building science knowledge in the home performance and energy-efficiency retrofit fields.

The goal of The Thermal Metric project is to improve how thermal energy is measured in buildings. It is led by Building Science Corp. researchers.