In today's climate-conscious investment landscape, the commercial real estate sector is more dedicated than ever to adopting sustainable practices. Leading companies have made sustainability and ...

Buildings are more than the sum of their parts. However, as the construction sector is responsible for approximately 40 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, those individual parts can play a critical ...

Sustainable architecture refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs; it’s a way of building that considers the full life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use ...

As the world embraces new standards for combating climate change, energy-intensive industries will be tasked with leading the way. Given that new construction and daily operations of buildings produce ...

For good reasons, sustainability is becoming more important and prevalent in the building trades. Planning a home build or remodeling project often brings up terms like sustainable, eco-friendly or ...

“Sustainable” has become one of the most overused words in real estate. It is often treated like a branding accessory, attached to buildings the same way “premium” is attached to countertops. But in ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Doug Selby has said the quadplex he’s going to build at 530 N. Division St. could be the most sustainable apartment building ever built in Ann Arbor. After over five years of planning ...

According to Live Kindly, sustainable architecture is “any architecture that attempts to limit the negative environmental impact of building construction and operation.” There are a few formal ...

Trondheim, Norway, a city of 180,000 just 200 miles from the Arctic Circle on the coast of the frigid Norwegian Sea, hardly seems an ideal location for harvesting energy from the sun and surrounding ...

Our campus buildings are one of the clearest articulations of who we have been, who we are, and who we work toward being. Bowdoin's original Climate Action Plan, written in 2008, stipulated that all ...