<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uob-tbc050217.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;">Public Release: 3-May-2017</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">Tighter building controls needed to achieve government global warming targets</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">UNIVERSITY OF BATH</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;">Thousands of new homes, schools and offices may be using much more energy than they should, and the reason is rather unexpected, according to the authors of a new study published by the University of Bath.</p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;">JOURNAL</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Building Services Engineering Research and Technology</em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The study 'The building performance gap: Are modellers literate?' is published in the </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Building Services Engineering Research and Technology</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> journal and can be accessed at: </span><a target="_blank" href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0143624416684641" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">http://journals.<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">sagepub.<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">com/<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">doi/<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">pdf/<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">10.<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">1177/<wbr style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">0143624416684641</a></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class=""><br class="">"Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">behaviors and competitiveness. Performance in animals is supported by aerobic scope, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">the increase in oxygen consumption rate from resting to maximal (9). Performance falls </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">below its optimum during cooling and warming. At both upper and lower pejus temperatures, </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">performance decrements result, as the limiting capacity for oxygen supply causes hypoxemia. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Beyond low and high critical temperatures, only a passive, anaerobic existence is possible."<br class=""><br class="">Portner and Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. Science October 31 2008</div>
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