Power distribution units

Having worked with manufacturers in China for some time now, focused on sustainability in the supply chain, I can say with certainty that there is a great deal of animosity among factory owners and managers towards the sustainability initiative. While there are several promising cases of vendors embracing the increasing global emphasis on greener production, they are indeed the minority. It is more accurate to say that factories will simply comply to meet the minimum requirements asked of them by their customers, and grudgingly at that.

Within a high performance building façade, every single one of that façade’s components — as well as all of the various building systems lying behind and supporting that façade in one way or another — are designed in concert, synergistically, to maximize overall performance.

As a roof wears, its ability to reflect heat from the outside and contain heat on the inside weakens. The asphalt granules on shingles not only protect the roof from harsh weather conditions, but they also help to reflect outside heat from your home. And from an inside perspective, a weakened roof is more susceptible to seeping the home’s temperature controlled air to the outside.

Even customers who deploy and manage their own IT infrastructure within AT&T data centers can realize energy savings when compared with running that same equipment in their own data center. These savings result from the reduced overhead associated with running cooling systems as well as core power infrastructure such as transformers, switch gear, uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units and other components.

The resulting fluctuations in temperature will cause the climate control system to operate more than necessary. Anywhere from 20-30% of heat exits a home through the roof, and with climate control system accounting for a large percentage of the monthly electric bill, it’s a necessity to make this figure as low as possible.

Educational works in an area of social reform that has traditionally been resistant to attempts at measurement of the quality and effectiveness of its activity. Outputs are often measured only in terms of the programmed logic itself or in vague terms. Part of this is due to the complexity and cost of measuring the impact of capacity raising initiatives, part perhaps a negative incentive not to address the issue for many apparently good reasons.

The city had suffered a downgrade in its credit rating, and there were concerns about what kind of message was being sent out to investors. The reason that food policy was ultimately accepted as a municipal function in Vancouver was because it was aligned with pre-existing policy directions and organizational expertise in sustainable development rather than as a tool to address social justice concerns like hunger and food insecurity. In this sense the vagueness may mean that sustainability can come to be a bland metaphor for long term viability but can also lead to the implementation of more radical policies.