Building performance standards are being successfully implemented in Boulder, Colorado; Tokyo; the United Kingdom; and the Netherlands. Building performance standards are being successfully ...

Larkspur has approved new development standards to protect the city from undesired residential projects. The new rules, called objective design and development standards, were approved at the City ...

Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony, a 55-unit affordable housing project in Boston that was built to Phius standards. All images by Ed Wonsek via Phius Passive house building principles have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Colorado State Capitol Building on Oct. 26, 2006, in Denver, Colo. (Doug Pensinger via Getty Images) This story was originally ...

Six years ago, St. Louis became the first city in the Midwest—and just the fourth in the nation—to mandate that all big buildings within its limits hit standards designed to reduce energy use. The ...

Laurie Schoeman is director for resilience and climate risk reduction in capital at Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable-housing nonprofit. Ryan Colker is vice president of innovation ...

When Dick Dolby built his house back in 1977, he relied on the common sense and wisdom of his father, brother and other family members skilled in the art of construction. Starting Dec. 1, that kind of ...

Scientists in Sudan have called for the inclusion of PV module cleaning operations in green building standards to address a key maintenance gap in renewable energy systems. It would target improved ...