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Cross ventilation is a term widely used in architecture and structural engineering. It is especially important when devising air conditioning systems for various buildings, including residential homes. There are different methods of ventilating a home which are largely dependent on the methods of wind...

The differences between organic and natural foods are not just related to marketing. As many people want to eat healthily, many commercial food companies want to give the impression their food is good for our health. They do so with green packaging, bucolic scenes of cornucopias or even the terminology...

Autecology and synecology are two of the approaches which can be taken to understand the larger discipline of ecology as a whole. Ecology is the study of communities of organisms, the ecosystems they inhabit and the relationships between species of organisms in a given environment. It is a very broad...

Thermal insulation is a method of reducing heat transfer and energy loss in buildings. This reduction in energy loss is facilitated by different materials which have insulating properties, although this is not the only property they need to be effective in construction of various buildings. Some examples...

Air, the life-sustaining substance that surrounds us, is often taken for granted. We breathe it in without much thought, unaware of its profound significance for all living beings. While oxygen is the most recognized component of air, there are numerous other gases and compounds within it that play crucial...

Although you may not have heard of them before, sandwich panels are types of construction material that have been around in since at least the 1940s. Their popularity and use has increased exponentially since then, now being one of the most used materials for buildings and other construction projects....
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