The building industry is spearheading a "green" transformation, with climate urgency, economics, and government policies.

In the tradition of Building Construction Illustrated, Francis D.K. Ching and Ian M. Shapiro offer a fully illustrated guide to the theory and practice of sustainable design. This guide provides ...

Sustainable design and construction used to be fairly straightforward. Design firms and contractors would take the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ...

French-Brazilian Triptyque Architecture designed a tropical building in Paris, France, bringing the Amazon rainforest to France. The designers say the sustainable building, called Villa M, “aims to ...

USA TODAY's Thomas Frank and database editor Christopher Schnaars reviewed 7,100 LEED-certified commercial buildings to see how they earned "green" points Government agencies have endorsed LEED based ...

The new library at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi incorporates a range of green design features. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Justus Bahati Wanzala NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – March 26, 2025 – The 23 rd annual New York State Green Building Conference, hosted by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) brings together approximately 250 ...

As the premier green building conference in the Northeast, our progressive advisory council has fostered our growth by consistently bringing together top green building researchers, educators, and ...

Several years ago, while still a graduate student in the Environmental Design department at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Egypt, Sahar Salah published a research paper on Building ...

Karen Manley receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, and the Western Australian Building Commission. Buildings offer an easily ...

Nationwide, there are 10.0 LEED-certified buildings per 100,000 Americans. In dozens of cities, the concentration of LEED buildings is more than 10 times that. Many cities with high concentrations of ...