Every building tells many stories, and one of those stories is how it impacts the environment. To understand that story, we can look at the greenhouse gas emissions of all the materials used to erect ...

For more than 30 years, Passive House principles have been a valuable guide to making buildings energy efficient. But now, with steady improvements in our understanding of embodied carbon—the carbon ...

Design teams have a new mission. Over the last two decades, the operating emissions of America’s total building stock have been pared back so far that it generates a third less (and falling) than it ...