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Does Wasting Home Heating Make You See (Infra)Red?
The City of Vancouver launches a program that helps homeowners find sources of wasted energy
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Space as a Green Metric
The average size of a U.S. house is going up, but the number of occupants is going down
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An Introduction to the Flatrock Passive House
In Newfoundland, Canada, climbing energy costs drive a plan to build a new home to the Passive House standard
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Urban Rustic: The Cedar Siding Is Here — Let’s Burn It
In advance of construction, the owner-builders prepare their cedar siding using a Japanese technique called shou sugi ban
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Young Adults and the Construction Trades
A National Association of Home Builders poll finds that very few young people want to become builders
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Clean Energy Programs Are Safe for Now
The new spending bill passed by Congress keeps most funding for efficiency standards and research, but next year’s budget will be a different story
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Airport House: Experiments in Home Automation
The pleasure of playing with technology makes up for the effort and expense of installing it
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Why Real Estate Developers Are Ignoring the Middle Class
And why some industry leaders worry that ignoring the need for affordable housing will ‘come back to haunt us’
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Architects Show Leadership in Addressing Climate Change
This is the time and place for architects to lead on climate change. We must do more.
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What’s Driving the Cost of Residential Solar-Plus-Storage?
Costs for PV systems that include battery storage are still high, but the residential market is expected to grow at an increasing rate