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whose environmental impact the designers minimized by using native plants 의 의미가 무엇인지요? 환경효과 (whose environmental impact )란 구체적으로 무엇을 말하는건지 모르겠습니다. 고수님들 한 번 보아주세요.
In addition, the windows in the administrative wing were designed with special shelves that reflect light deep into room interiors, reducing the need for artificial lighting. Recycled water was used to run cooling equipment and irrigate outdoor landscaping—whose environmental impact the designers minimized by using native plants. These moves, together with innovations in how air is circulated, cooled, and recovered naturally, reduced total heat so much that TI was able to get by with one less huge industrial air conditioner than would normally have been required.
2) So everything was usually on all the time 이란 무슨 말인지요? 전등이 항상 켜져 있다는 말인가요? 여러 개가 헤깔려요.
You need to put a lot more thought into the original design. You have to think of a house or building not just as walls, windows, and floors, with lights, heating, and cooling, but as a system of systems, and then rethink how they all interact. Historically, the heating and air-conditioning never talked to the windows. The windows never talked to the lighting. The lighting never talked to the doorways. So everything was usually on all the time and nothing talked to anything, let alone to the grid or to the energy market. With an intelligent building, with occupancy sensors in every room, you could have the auditorium, classroom, or office heated and lit only when it is in use.
첫댓글 설계자들은 토착 식물을 심어서 조경(whose)이 환경에 미치는 영향(impact)을 최소화하였다. 2. Everything = heating, airconditioning, and lighting, 즉 이런 설비들이 서로 그리고 창, 문 등 건물 구조와 별도로 작동하도록 설계되어 있었으므로(historically) 모두다(everything) 항상 켜져 있는 상태로 있다는 말이군요. 여기서 Talk는 서로 시스템적으로 연계되어 있지 않고(never talked to) 별도로 - 개별적으로 운전(작동)된다는 말이군요. Inteligent 빌딩의 장점이 이런 개별 설비들을 통합제어하는 거지요.
1 번은, 설계자들이 조경에 외래식물을 심지 않을 정도로 환경에 대한 영향을 신경썼다는 것을 강조하는 말 같군요.
whose는 Recycled water~landscaping까지 앞문장 전체의 소유격으로 보입니다. <재이용수는 냉방장치를 가동하고 외부 조경에 물을 공급하는 데 사용되었으며, 이로인한 환경에 미치는 영향은 설계자가 자생식물(native plant)을 이용하여 최소화 시켰다.>
틴맨님, 유진님 두분께 감사드려요. 많은 도움되었습니다.