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Big Data to play an increasingly important role in making buildings more energy efficient

The comprehensive analysis of data captured by building management systems (BMS) and building energy monitoring systems will play an increasingly important role in the process of making building more energy efficient, experts believe. Leveraging big data and using a variety of measurement and analytical tools can improve building performance. This has had an especially positive […]
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Home energy efficiency improvements can result in benefits for human health and well-being, fresh research suggests

Improving the energy efficiency within one’s home can result in benefits for human health and well-being, economic productivity, environmental quality and urban development, the results of several new research projects at The University of Manchester’s Urban Institute have shown. The COMBI project (‘Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe’, funded by […]
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Government urged to introduce a maximum working temperature

Following this summer’s heatwave, which saw unseasonably high temperatures affecting the UK and Europe for long periods of time, the UK government is being urged to consider introducing a statutory maximum working temperature, a news source can reveal. The Health and Safety Regulations state that the temperature in all indoor workplaces should be “reasonable”, there […]