Net zero energy (NZE) was once the holy grail of sustainable building design—enticing, but often out of reach. That has all since changed. Giant leaps in net zero design such as improved materials, a ...

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the American Institute of Architects’ effort to have architecture firms voluntarily pledge net-zero energy design for all their buildings by 2030. The AIA 2030 ...

FAIRFAX, Va. — City officials recently celebrated the opening of the Countryside Municipal Complex in Illinois, the state’s first net-zero government building. The 34,500-square-foot, three-story ...

Buildings are comparable to transportation in the amount of carbon added to the atmosphere, and the two categories far outweigh any other in terms of emissions. On Tuesday, the Avon Town Council took ...

The Reinventing Cities competition asked architects to find new uses for vacant and abandoned spaces in cities around the world. The results are an extraordinary example of what future cities could ...

Winona State University wants to be carbon neutral on campus by 2050, and it hopes to get there with help from a planned $84 million net zero building, a first for the Minnesota State Colleges and ...

The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that $1 million is available to large real estate portfolio owners to support operation of net zero buildings. The ...

ClimateScout—a winners of Fast Company's 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards—let's architects pick a location around the world and see what environmentally-friendly building features work best in that ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The company I work for recently built a new ticket office at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. Environmentally, we killed it: ...