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How Parking Reform Is Helping Transform American Cities
In cities across the U.S., planners are pushing to eliminate mandates requiring parking spaces in new buildings to help reduce car dependency, create public and green spaces, and lower housing costs.
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Engineering a Domestic Hot Water System to Meet High Demand
What’s the best back-up option for a big family that always runs out of hot water?
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Residential Energy Efficiency: A Look Back on the Last 25 Years
Bit by bit, some mechanical equipment and systems have improved
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Building Affordable Houses—20 Years Later
A renewed conversation about the intersection of cost-effectiveness and green building practices
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World’s Largest Inventory of Global GHG Emissions
Climate TRACE uses satellite imagery and machine learning to track and measure emissions from every sector
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Rafter Tail Removal for Home Performance Upgrade
A “chainsaw retrofit” was the solution for creating continuous air and thermal barriers from wall to roof on an old timber-frame farmhouse
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Understanding Wet Bulb Temperature
The "temperature of evaporation" is the lowest temperature that can be reached under ambient conditions by evaporation of water only. And it can be measured.
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As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires
Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage—accountability around AI's environmental impact is coming
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High-Velocity HVAC Systems
Are smaller duct size and the ability to dehumidify reasons enough to install a system that distributes air at high pressure?
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Variations on the Larsen Truss
Builders continue to innovate around this decades-old method of framing a wall that puts insulation to the exterior
