Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden ...

Commercial, multifamily, and industrial buildings – both new and existing – face barriers to decarbonization amid competing demands and growing pressure from legislation and consumers. But there are ...

“This year’s conference emphasized the importance of considering not only a building’s energy consumption during operation, but also its carbon footprint throughout its lifecycle, while keeping ...

The California Energy Commission (CEC) and the County of Los Angeles hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 27 to mark the first Equitable Building Decarbonization (EBD) project in Southern ...

For industrial and commercial facilities, simultaneous heating and cooling needs across a building, or even a single floor, bring challenges to both near-term energy management and long-term ...

Building decarbonization – through electrification and energy efficiency – is key to expanding the clean energy economy and reaching ambitious climate goals, but it’s one area where even governments ...

Cities across the U.S. are cracking down on commercial real estate carbon emissions and enacting regulations that will require building owners to make changes. The first step for many building owners ...

Reducing energy consumption has become a call to arms for governments and energy producers as they scramble to secure alternative fuel sources. But in its wake, the energy crisis is not just leaving ...

Constructing new buildings and single-family homes to be all-electric out of the gate, as opposed to merely “electric-ready”, is likely an economically preferable route to building decarbonization, a ...

Buildings are responsible for nearly 40% of annual carbon dioxide emissions. Of that 40%, 28% can be attributed to everyday building operations including heating and cooling. As the world moves toward ...

ATLANTA — ASHRAE announced its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with the launch of its redesigned building decarbonization webpage and the release of a new Building Performance ...

We are witnessing the remarkable transformation of the U.S. building sector with record emissions reductions that began in 2005. In the U.S., from the Industrial Revolution (late 1700s) to 2005, as ...