It’s another sunny day on the Internet. Dozens of participants are lined up in their digital boxes attending Reimagine Buildings ’24, an online conference held in the spring dedicated, mostly, to ...

Concerns about climate change have been growing. It is now becoming more and more evident from extreme weather events, storms, heatwaves and polar vortexes. Those in turn are affecting not just going ...

Miami University architecture students will soon get a lesson in energy-efficient "passive house" design and construction from the ground up — literally. Mary Rogero, Miami's interim chair and ...

Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture (KKA) shared with us their winning proposal for Nya Kollaskolan, which is expected to be the largest passive-house school in Sweden, as well as one of the largest ...

WITH WINTER on the way, the idea of living in a home without a conventional heating system probably sounds like a recipe for disaster. But a growing contingent of architects and builders, including ...

David Bainbridge, founder of the Passive Solar Institute, recently sent us his book Passive Solar Architecture. The book is a great introduction for anyone interested in passive solar architecture.

R. Deaves, A. Lloyd, S. Kulasekara, V. Lakshman, N. Vermaat, E. Vermaat-Cuoco, P. Steiglitz, M. Habets, S. Ryan and A. Jones The paper provides two main technical ...

The promise of architecturally considered, environmentally conscious buildings that are more than exercises in technological prosthetics is taking shape around the world. Sustainable design can be ...

Low- and zero-energy buildings could have a huge impact on energy use and carbon emissions. We have the technologies, but if they are to mitigate climate change, green-building design must hit the ...