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Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer without consuming natural gas or electricity. Research findings reported…
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Apr 2022
Editor’s Foreword: How can we do our part in keeping the commitment to achieve the 1.5°C Paris Agreement…
Feb 2022
Now in its 14th edition, the Ecocity World Summit, the longest running conference on sustainable cities, has come…
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Four concise briefings connect the projects, materials, policies, and systems shaping better buildings.
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Net zero, electrification, efficiency, and renewable systems.
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Products, healthy materials, embodied carbon, and reuse.
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Projects, housing, planning, resilience, and urban systems.
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Professional calendar
Upcoming conferences, training, tours, and conversations worth your time.
Sep 9
Virtual
This one-hour webinar organized by the New Buildings Institute focuses on marketing and lead-generation strategies tailored for organizations advancing building electrification. Featuring short presentations and a panel discussion, the session highlights practical methods to increase visibility, communicate the benefits of electrification to…
Sep 9
Virtual
Mass timber construction frequently encounters skepticism regarding sound isolation, prompting project teams to add heavy concrete toppings that compromise the material’s embodied carbon advantages. This technical webinar reassesses those assumptions using measured baseline acoustical performance data from mass timber assemblies alongside comparisons…
Sep 10
In Person · Boston
Join WoodWorks for a detailed jobsite tour of Building F within Boston’s Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment. The nine-story, 273,000-square-foot project demonstrates a hybrid structural system combining cross-laminated timber panels with cold-formed steel bearing walls to create sustainable, biophilic living spaces. Project team…
Sep 15
Virtual
This webinar examines the vital balance between upgrading rental housing and safeguarding tenant stability. While energy efficiency and electrification retrofits modernize older mechanical systems, reduce utility bills, and enhance indoor comfort, uncoordinated execution can severely impact tenants. Without deliberate planning, retrofit initiatives…
From the library
Three enduring reports selected for their useful precedents and lessons.
GreenLinks · Jun 2019
For years, China was importing almost half of the world’s scrap plastics and paper. Now, countries have been scrambling to…
Buildings · May 2019
Congratulations to the 2019 winners of the COTE Top Ten awards program for sustainable design excellence. The winning projects not…
GreenLinks · Apr 2019
Futurebuild’s main focus this year was on Circular Cities and Circular Economies. Circular Cities/Economies is an economic theory based on…
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