{"id":337840,"date":"2010-02-18T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2184"},"modified":"2010-02-18T06:34:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:34:40","slug":"australian-tower-to-get-solar-skin-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337840","title":{"rendered":"Australian Tower to get Solar Skin Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"124\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" title=\"Sydney Tower w\/ Solar Skin\" alt=\"Sydney Tower w\/ Solar Skin\" src=\"http:\/\/i.bnet.com\/blogs\/lava_sydney_uts_tower_concept4.jpg\" \/>The UTS Tower in Sydney, Australia is may get a proposed upgrade &#8211; a solar skin.&nbsp; This PV &quot;wrap&quot; would turn the tower into a very green and energy efficient structure.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Tower &quot;upgrade&quot; is &quot; &#8230; Fueled by the university&rsquo;s sustainability drive &#8230; turn the building into a &ldquo;landmark environmental tower&rdquo; by wrapping it in a photovoltaic skin.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The sustainable energy system, devised by postgraduate students in 2008, has been funded to allow students to build and test the project.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;There are a number of propose upgrades including wind turbines and cogeneration &#8230; the solar skin &quot; &#8230; stretches around walls and roof elements &#8230; the building is covered in a lightweight composite mesh textile that can collect rain water, generate electricity and complement the plan&rsquo;s passive ventilation system that uses natural convection.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:<\/strong>&nbsp; SmartPlanet&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/business\/blog\/smart-takes\/with-solar-skin-sydneys-ugliest-tower-becomes-an-efficient-attraction\/4130\/\"  title=\"SmartPlanet\">LINK <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UTS Tower in Sydney, Australia is may get a proposed upgrade &#8211; a solar skin.&nbsp; This PV &quot;wrap&quot; would turn the tower into a very green and energy efficient structure. The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Tower &quot;upgrade&quot; is &quot; &#8230; Fueled by the university&rsquo;s sustainability drive &#8230; turn the building into a &ldquo;landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}