by Paul Kenney | Jan 22, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Renewable Energy Booming Around the World BEJING—The world’s total investment in clean energy was $310 billion in 2014, a new report published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) concludes. The biggest boost in renewable energy investment came from China, where...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 22, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Poll: Energy Efficiency Is Homeowners’ Top ‘Unmet Need’ NEW YORK—Safety, affordability and privacy were unsurprisingly some of top housing needs identified in a recent national survey of more than 10,000 households by the Demand Institute. However,...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 22, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Chinese Company 3-D Prints 5-Story Apartment Building SUZHOU, China—Chinese high-tech construction company WinSun has completed a five-story apartment complex and an 11,840 ft2 (1100 m2) villa at the Suzhou Industrial Park. The company’s 3-D printer array stands 20 ft...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
DOE Funds Research Into ‘Air Conditioned’ Clothing ITHACA, N.Y.—the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Cornell University fiber science and engineering researchers a $3 million grant to create new clothes...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
New Solar Installation Rises Every 150 Seconds in U.S. BOSTON—According to new data from GTM Research, the U.S. solar industry completed a project every two-and-a-half minutes in 2014. Those installations were a result of $15 billion in cumulative investments. The...
by Paul Kenney | Jan 15, 2015 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Drive-By Heat Mapping CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—An MIT spin-off company is bringing technology similar to the cars Google used for its “Street View” to energy-efficiency monitoring. Essess deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that can create heat maps of...
