Forty-five college teams receive grants as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet student design competition.
How close is architecture to carbon neutrality?
What we design uses 40 percent of the nation's energy.
Energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy living showcased at San Francisco event.
A student residence designed to European Passive House standards wins the Evergreen Awards residential category for 2012.
A look at how schools are being designed and constructed to better serve communities and the environment.
Facts are stubborn things.
Postal facilities may offer the greatest opportunities for adaptive use.
The standards development organization announces it will help develop product category reviews (PCRs) and verify environmental product declarations (EPDs).
Cromie is the first collection from Refin to use the company’s Ecosan24 treatment, which uses titanium dioxide and metallic elements to treat pollution, self-clean, and sanitize the tiles.
Breaking from the abundance of wood patterns and undetailed stone visuals of Cersaie 2012, Marazzi Group’s Ragno subsidiary taps into another trend at the show with decorative detailing.
In a partnership with Japanese manufacturer Toto, Casalgrande Padana is producing Bios Self Cleaning Ceramics, a line of self-cleaning porcelain tiles for use in exterior and interior applications.
Florim Ceramiche Selection Oak and Taiga
Under its Rex subsidiary, Florim Ceramiche is offering Selection Oak and Taiga, two new collections that include recycled content.
David Salmela argues that all projects should have a sustainable explanation.
No longer just high-end ticket items, sustainable strategies are cropping up in affordable multifamily projects.
As an integrated design process becomes the norm and energy usage moves up in the priorities of a project, design teams must begin looking at energy early on.
If approved, the SW Ecodistrict Initiative could give the area surrounding the National Mall just the push it’s needed to transform the urban ghost town into a lively city center.
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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Biz Stone to headline opening plenary for 2012 conference and expo in San Francisco.
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The green-building program wins the $100,000 prize to further develop and scale its work.
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The team at Terrapin Bright Green expands on its recent report "The Economics of Biophilia."
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USGBC delays ballot on LEED 2012 until 2013, renames the system upgrade to LEED v4, and adds a fifth public comment period.
Hemp blends together 60% wool and 40% hemp in a fabric suitable for interior use.
The 100 Mile House Ideas Competition challenged entrants to build a four-person residence using materials within a 100-mile radius of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Building booms come in shades of green.
Data centers may be the next front line for adaptive use.
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Nearly $70 million in grants will go towards cleaning up polluted areas across the country and revitalizing financially distressed communities.
Incorporating access to nature and other biophilic design strategies could save millions in healthcare costs and in employee wages across all industries, as well as add millions to profits, according to a new white paper from Terrapin Bright Green.
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Green Globes and the Living Building Challenge join LEED in passing the GSA’s review for use in federal projects, an increase from just LEED in 2007.
New York City's next big urban park may be underground on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Today's green hotels meet performance goals without compromising the guest experience.
Puerto Rico is one of the most environmentally troubled islands in the Caribbean. Can one building change that?
IgCC is rolling out and it's going to change the way you work.
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Designing climate sensitivity and adaptation into long-term structures can increase resilience against natural disasters and climate change, according to a new report from the USGBC and the University of Michigan.
A sea change isn't coming. It's already here.
Building Information Modeling has to keep up if it's going to remain on top.
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The solar-powered housing competition moves to the West Coast, and adds teams from Prague and Vienna.
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The District of Columbia tops the list with 31.5 square feet of LEED-certified space per capita.
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Austin, Texas, Springfield, Ill., and Wenatchee, Wash., are among the seven cities to receive AIA guidance.
