Barratt and Saint-Gobain test futuristic house against

Barratt and Saint-Gobain test futuristic house against

Barratt Developments and Saint-Gobain are building a futuristic house to test its performance against extreme temperatures and climatic conditions.

eHome2 is a three-bedroom family home inside the Energy House 2.0 facility at Salford University. Over nine months, the house will undergo rigorous whole-building testing, including thermal performance, energy efficiency, running costs and comfort.

It is a successor to Barratt’s Zed

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Previously unseen processes reveal path to better

To design better rechargeable ion batteries, engineers and chemists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign collaborated to combine a powerful new electron microscopy technique and data mining to visually pinpoint areas of chemical and physical alteration within ion batteries.

A study led by materials science and engineering professors Qian Chen and Jian-Min Zuo is the first to map out altered

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Webinar: Your 2023 Opportunities: NEC Code Updates, the IRA

On Dec. 6, 2022, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR will host a free webinar, “Your 2023 Opportunities: NEC Code Updates, the IRA and More,” sponsored by Schneider Electric.

Despite potential economic headwinds in 2023, there are several opportunities to continue to grow your residential business in 2023. From greater adoption of the 2020 National Electrical Code, to the new 2023 NEC,

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Bentley Systems Announces Integration of EC3 with the

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced today at COP27 expanded integrated workflows for embodied carbon calculation in the Bentley iTwin platform. The new integration enables carbon assessment in infrastructure digital twin solutions, empowered by the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3). Developed by the nonprofit Building Transparency, EC3 is a no-cost, open-access tool that allows

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