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Olive Earth stands for sustainability and peace and ecoimagines a smart and sustainable earth with its value focused ideas. It is an effort to accumulate the information around emissions, energy efficiency, waste management and environmental protection and discuss their applicability in the Indian context. Olive Earth is a community for social blogging around sustainability with groups, forums, micro-blogging, opinion polls and points of views. The Olive Earth website provides several applications aimed towards sustainability like India car pool, India rentals and green classifieds across several Indian cities. Come join the revolution.

Friday, August 20, 2010

When buildings are built, they are typically designed for a specific use and occupancy. This tends to change over the years. Building systems should be commissioned as construction is completed to verify that they operate as designed, but often the commissioning process is neglected. A National Energy Management Institute study estimates less than 5% of existing buildings have been commissioned. Buildings that have changing uses and those that haven’t been commissioned after construction can be secretly wasting energy. In both cases, retrocommissioning can help

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