Trondheim, Norway, a city of 180,000 just 200 miles from the Arctic Circle on the coast of the frigid Norwegian Sea, hardly seems an ideal location for harvesting energy from the sun and surrounding ...

Rising demand for housing in most major cities around the world is increasingly at odds with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, as the literal building blocks—concrete and cement—of the ...

"This project is a work-in-progress on HygroStructures (‘hygro’ from the root Greek word ‘hugros’, meaning ‘wet’), a new class of physical structures that conserve form, material and process.

The National Green Building Standard, known as ICC-700, was approved on January 29 as an American National Standard. The new Standard provides guidance for safe and sustainable building practices for ...

The push for sustainable building is no longer optional. From government regulations to tenant demand, the construction industry is under mounting pressure to reduce its environmental footprint. Yet ...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $30 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to increase the sustainability of federal buildings by ...

Seeing green In the past seven years, hints of the green-building trend have surfaced here. Within a 30-mile radius of Butte, 37 NorthWestern Energy customers have installed renewable energy systems; ...

People often ask me what’s happening in the energy space—especially now, when the economy feels like it’s shifting beneath our feet. My answer is always the same: this is just a phase. Markets evolve, ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canada Wood signed three memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with key Chinese stakeholders to promote mass timber and hybrid construction. These agreements with Treezo ...