Network
PAS 2080:2023 Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure, second edition, published by The British Standards Institution in March 2023, defines a network as a: ‘combination of interconnected assets (buildings and infrastructure) that provide services (e.g. water, power, transport) to society as part of a wider system.’
The word network might also refer to ay group of connected things, such as computers, people and so on.
Articles about networks on Designing Buildings include:
- Activity-on-the-node network
- Advanced network planning
- Artificial neural network
- Circular Value Network
- Community energy network
- Ecological network
- Embedded network
- Green network
- Heat sharing network
- High voltage network
- High-speed electronic communication network
- Integrated habitat network
- Knowledge network
- Local area network
- Low voltage network
- Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network MBEKTN
- National ecovillage network
- Natura 2000 network
- Network gases
- Primary route network
- Smart grid electricity network
- Strategic road network
- Strategic Walk Network
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