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Substituting Lumber for Energy-Intensive Building Products to Reduce Emissions

Substituting lumber for materials such as cement and steel could cut building emissions and costs.

12 Dec 2019

Siemens Helps Hallé Go Green

Siemens is helping the world-famous Hallé orchestra cut its costs by 35% through energy reduction. It has created an integrated digital solution to make Hallé St Peter’s, the historic recording and rehearsal venue in Manchester, highly energy efficient.

26 Nov 2019

Funding for Sustainable Concrete Renewed for Five More Years

The MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, an interdisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to concrete and infrastructure science, engineering, and economics, has renewed its relationship with its industry partners for another five years.

8 Oct 2019

Study Evaluates Global ISA and UGS Mapping

The dependence of humans on the spatial pattern of the global urban surface area is a significant problem, which has currently gained wider attention worldwide.

17 May 2019

Glowing Plants Could Light the Way for Sustainable Buildings

Collaboration between MIT architect and chemical engineer could be at the center of new sustainable infrastructure for buildings.

10 May 2019

Web-Based Software Program Takes a Whole New Approach Toward Urban Planning

Scientists at EPFL have created a web-based software program that adopts a whole new strategy to urban planning.

25 Jan 2019

LyondellBasell Joins AEWP as Global Effort to Find Solutions to Eliminate Plastic Waste

LyondellBasell has announced that its CEO Bob Patel has joined with Procter & Gamble CEO David Taylor and Veolia CEO Antoine Frérot in leading the newly announced global Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW).

25 Jan 2019

Energy-Efficient Systems for Cooling and Dehumidifying Indoor Spaces

Analysis points the way to energy-efficient systems that take a location-specific approach to cooling and dehumidifying places where people live and work.

12 Jul 2018

Aircuity to Begin Installation at Virginia Commonwealth University

Aircuity will begin installation at three laboratory research buildings at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine.

From Aircuity 16 May 2018

Integrating Plant Physiology with Smart Sensor Networks to Improve Indoor Air Quality

Residents of industrialized countries spend over 80% of their time indoors, increasingly in air-tight structures. Although these buildings need less energy, the build-up of particulate matter & toxic gases may prove detrimental to human health.

23 Apr 2018