Over the past few decades, the booming global population, growing cities, and changing climate have brought global attention to the need to build energy-efficient and sustainable buildings. Evidence ...

A research team developed a 3D Smart Building Energy-saving device capable of automatically controlling heating and cooling ...

Cities like Cleveland are increasingly turning to a wonky-sounding tool called energy savings performance contracts to fix ...

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The City of Madison has completed the second year of the Building Energy Savings Program, with 330 buildings successfully ...

A pilot project in a two-story office in Madison, Wisconsin, has been testing the concept of how buildings in the future could communicate with utilities to reduce and shift energy use. The ...

Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the ...

In early 2021, as required by law, the New York City Housing Authority checked out the energy efficiency of its buildings and discovered that a significant number of addresses in their deteriorating ...

Builders and designers say the benefits to people justify the cost premium of "green" or "high-performance" buildings. Photos: State-of-the-art skyscraper Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...