by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's impact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know Geothermal energy is derived from the natural heat of the earth. It exists in both high enthalpy (volcanoes, geysers) and low enthalpy forms (heat stored in rocks in the Earth’s crust)? Nearly all heating and cooling applications utilize low...
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's impact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that PV conversion efficiency is the percentage of incident solar energy that a PV converts to electricity. For production modules, conversion efficiency is 6% to 21%.
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's impact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know on average, 1.05 x 105 terawatts (TW) of solar radiation reach the Earth’s surface, while global electricity demand averages 2.4 TW.
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's impact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK), Global trends shaping the building industry's future
Did you know that due to congestion in urban areas, an additional 6.9 billion hours of travel time and an extra 3.1 billion gallons of fuel are use by urban Americans in 2014?
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's impact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK), Global trends shaping the building industry's future
Did you know that in 2015, 58.65 billion passenger-miles (PM) were traveled on public transit, and 3 trillion vehicle-miles are traveled (VMT) on public roads each year.
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Did You Know? (DYK), Strategy & Business Model Innovation
Did you know the rate of urbanization, i.e., the changing of land from forest or agricultural uses to suburban and urban uses, is increasing by 15% from 2010 – 2015? Urban land area is 106,386 square miles, or 3% of total land area in the U.S., and is projected...
