"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.

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 ...

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 ...

Research continues to demonstrate the benefits of green building construction—from an environmental perspective and a financial one. According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC), the initial ...

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 ...

On-site renewable generation, particularly BIPV, is set for a significant boost under Europe’s updated Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Image: Philipp Tur, Shutterstock. Earlier this year a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Eco-friendly practices apply to the full range of contemporary social policy, and naturally that includes housing policy. Buildings, after all., account for some 45% of all carbon emissions, so ...