Maya Angela Lagtapon Simms, Class of 2024, is among the thousands of students who, at some point during their Syracuse University careers, occupy apartment-style housing on South Campus. “Some of the ...

An international research group investigated hybrid heat pumps (HHPs) as a technically and economically feasible solution to decarbonizing heat supply in old residential buildings and found that it ...

A scientist from Cambridge University has investigated the economic benefit of combining a basic energy-efficiency retrofit with the installation of rooftop PV and has found solar arrays help to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I think old houses, and the people who love them, are fascinating. Apr 28, 2021, 07:00am EDT Apr 28, 2021, 10:44am EDT This ...

In a warming world where greenhouse gases emissions of buildings construction, heating and cooling contribute to about 40 per cent of the total world emissions — 27 per cent building operations, 6 per ...

Boulder Community Health’s West Medical Building, with its hybrid vacuum-insulated glass installation and two inches of continuous rigid insulation, and the Lubber Run Community Center, Arlington, Va.

Conventional windows have long been considered the weak link in the building envelope. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program Multi-Year Program Plan 2011-2015, ...

Nationwide, local governments and jurisdictions are mandating climate change goals. Though different from state to state, a common thread between many of the goals is to reach some form of net-zero ...