Suppose you meet with an architect and ask her to design a building. You tell her the design you'd like, the size, and where it will be located. You might also specify the level of energy efficiency ...

Correspondent Heating and lighting buildings requires a vast amount of energy: 18% of all global energy consumption, according to the International Energy Agency. Contributing to the problem is the ...

A new machine learning approach developed through an international collaboration between Polytechnic University of Milan and Drexel University could help architects and urban planners better predict ...

Buildings stand as silent giants in the effort to decarbonize the energy landscape, consuming vast amounts of energy. According to the International Energy Agency, "buildings account for about ...

PROVIDENCE – When the city enacted an ordinance just over a year ago requiring owners of large buildings to track and report their energy usage, the hope was that it would be more than just an ...

Last month, a South Carolina college newspaper had an interesting piece on what people, particularly college students, could do to help reduce energy consumption – changing thermostat settings when ...