Eat less meat, fly less, don’t use plastic: The changes we need to make to lower global emissions can often be tough sells. But one effective strategy is a win-win. Retrofitting buildings to be more ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

The first full-building heat pump retrofit of a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) property was recently completed on ...

As businesses grapple with the current energy crisis and prepare for it to worsen, new research from JLL finds that these rising energy costs are expediting the move toward more efficient buildings.

A fireside chat at Light + Intelligent Building Middle East examines reuse-led strategies for existing buildings in the ...

An international research group investigated hybrid heat pumps (HHPs) as a technically and economically feasible solution to decarbonizing heat supply in old residential buildings and found that it ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

Westminster City Council is to adopt a Retrofit First policy to reduce carbon emissions and boost affordable housing ...

During an earthquake it’s not the shaking that injures, maims, and kills; it’s what the shaking does to cause buildings, bridges, and other structures to fail. Large pieces, such as parapet walls, can ...