Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

When considering traditional brick facades, we usually conjure up images of solidity and robustness. Solid ceramic blocks, recognized for their ability to withstand compression and offer strength and ...

The latest report from Task 15, a global project set up to address barriers related to building integrated PV (BIPV) by the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS), provides an ...

Pilkington UK, for nearly 200 years, has been a world leader in the manufacture of glass and glazing solutions. The Pilkington brand is one of the industry’s leading and most trusted brands around the ...

Heritage buildings face mounting pressure to cut carbon emissions, but traditional solar panels often clash with their historic appearance and face public resistance. Building-integrated photovoltaics ...

Solarban 90® glass by Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass) offers exceptional solar control and a neutral appearance similar to clear glass from both the interior and exterior of a building.

“A few people felt that only so much could be said about adobe.” This quote, from an adobe building magazine achieving its one-year anniversary in 1975, forms an epigraph to the introduction to Albert ...

What if public art could also power an entire residential building? The SunRise Building, an apartment complex in Alberta, Canada, has answered that question — and is now the title holder of the ...