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 ...

Our clients are increasingly asking us how they can construct a carbon-neutral facility and accounting for the embodied carbon of construction must be part of the equation for any carbon-neutral ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: TILE), the global flooring solutions company and leader in sustainability, today announced that it is making it easier for customers to understand ...

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 ...

Software developer Bentley Systems has doubled down on its emphasis on open data standards and data lakes for design and construction, introducing two products earlier this month—OpenSite+ for civil ...

For 12 years, LPA and Edwards Lifesciences (ELS) have been collaborating on the expansion of the medical technology company’s 42-acre campus in Irvine, Calif., designing each element around evolving ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Buildings are ideas made physical. They carry silent histories. They manifest culture, values, and technologies. And they also embody environmental impact. In terms of numbers, buildings account for ...

Addition helps keep sustainability top-of-mind, clearly communicates flooring’s carbon impact Each IDS floor plan now includes a dynamic bar graph that showcases the total embodied carbon value for ...