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You can add “CCS” — shorthand for carbon capture and storage — to the short list of controversial, three-letter green investment practices (think ESG) in the run-up to a net-zero economy. CCS is either the climate tech breakthrough of the 21st century, according to its advocates, or a multibillion-dollar boondoggle, say activists. Proponents claim that…

Retro commissioning is the process of reoptimizing building systems for energy efficiency. It’s a low-cost strategy with a strong payback story. Buildings are complex machines. When they’re shiny and new and everything is running great, facility managers feel like the kings or queens of the world. But it doesn’t take long for that luster to…

#1 Computers Will Be More Creative 2022 saw the release of image-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as DALL-E 2 from OpenAI, Imagen from Google and Stable Diffusers from Huggingface which can generate photo realistic images from a simple text prompt. For example, the prompt ‘Darth Vader riding a bicycle in the style of Claude…

We must take action to drastically increase efficiency if the UK is to remain competitive in the face of surging energy costs. Connected buildings can help us meet these objectives, argues Jamie Cameron, Director of Digital Solutions UK&I & EMEALA, Johnson Controls A report from the Institute for Government warned that the UK’s buildings are…

The weather outside might be frightful, but your heating bill doesn’t have to be. This holiday season, colder temperatures will impact much of the United States, turning it into a winter wonderland. But Frosty the Snowman standing next to your building doesn’t need or want your warm air. Some solutions are more costly than others,…

Schools, hospitality venues, community centres and other facilities with open plan areas can help reduce energy bills by using a moveable or folding wall. That’s the advice of Michael Porter, group sales director at leading partitioning experts Style, who says that one option for tackling soaring energy bills is to only use the room space…