After evaluating 17 building energy-performance assessments from around the world, a new research paper proposes a classification framework for energy-efficiency evaluation.
As the building industry recovers, proper education on building science will be key in terms of both business finances and skilled manpower.
Vision 2020 Energy Efficiency + Building Performance chair Dennis Creech believes energy efficiency can't be judged by an Energy Star or HERS score alone.
Vision 2020 Energy Efficiency + Building Science co-chair Mark LaLiberte explains how to systematically improve the building industry.
Technological advances may yield whole buildings generated on site with no transportation or human assembly needed.
A new report says there's plenty of wind to power the world's energy needs, even if that's not the goal.
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IBACOS senior research manager says utilities will lead the way to integrated and intelligent energy management systems.
Systems thinking will take building science into the areas of air purification, rightsized HVAC components, and home energy management systems, says Building Systems Research chair Michael Dickens.
Energy & Carbon chairs Edward Mazria and Francesca Desmarais examine what the building sector needs to do to expand sustainable design and reduce carbon levels to 350 ppm by 2030.
Fortifying homes against natural (and unnatural) disasters is the next big step in sustainability.
Randy Thompson is out to prove that a collaborative design-build process will significantly reduce costs and boost ROI to green up the country’s building stock.
Architect Tom Hootman wants to take net-zero energy to the next level.
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Manny Barrera oversees the nation's first real-world application of a smart grid at Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque, foreshadowing and refining how it will change energy distribution.
The Fort Worth-area builder has made a career out of building green and relies on energy modeling to help push the envelope of housing performance.
Today's environmental product declarations have their roots in Pliny Fisk's forward-thinking approach.
Applying architecture to production-level net-zero-energy prefab building modules may help revive the industry.
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Proponents of mechanical technologies and passive solutions to comfort and performance spar in a session at the 20th Congress for the New Urbanism.
New technologies and delivery systems may hold the key to finding a global foothold for factory-built housing.
Total domestic PV capacity is on an exponential trajectory through 2016.
In addition to its own efforts to accelerate green building adoption and reduce its carbon footprint, Webcor Builders is looking downstream at its suppliers to follow suit.