It’s official: passive house design standards are coming to Massachusetts. The lessons learned in the Northeast can help design energy-efficient, multifamily buildings elsewhere too. The Commonwealth ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With fires continuing to devastate multiple communities in Los Angeles, there is a growing awareness that the existing built environment is not compatible with ...

Following a slew of national natural disasters—most recently the Southern California wildfires and the historic winter storm that hit Southern states—interest in durable and sustainable architectural ...

Architects across New York have embraced Passive House design, a German energy efficiency standard slowly gaining traction in the states. Despite its name, this new approach to building design can be ...

A shipping container that can test passive cooling systems could help researchers and builders find carbon-free ways to keep people cool in extreme temperatures. Researchers created the 60 square-foot ...

Many Passive House proponents see the energy performance–based program and its strategies as having great potential for the ...

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It's no exaggeration to say that Renzo Piano is one of the most unanimously respected architects in the world of architecture. With an oeuvre that blends respect for context, lightness and technology ...

This 50-year-old Bengaluru home was redesigned with solar power, passive cooling, and rainwater harvesting to cut energy use ...