This will allow the facility to open in October, earlier than it would be opened if conventional construction were done.

Building envelopes under the Passivhaus standard are required to be extremely airtight compared to conventional construction.

It is expensive to put a hotel, apartments, sports club, theater and garage under one roof, perhaps 50 percent more so than conventional residential construction.

Using conventional construction would take five or six months, Mr. Armando estimated.

The unusually laid out LB.2 was largely of conventional wooden construction.

Although highly effective and generally satisfactory, it does not quite match the performance of the conventional floating construction.

Overall, the Grassis figure their costs ran 12 percent higher than conventional construction.

It weighed 2,000 tons, but conventional rigid construction would have weighed six times that.

Two such converters are provided at each end of the scheme, which is of conventional bipolar construction.