Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker walks into the back of the Conservatory Apartments in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood on Aug. 2, 2023. The ...

Discover how Passive House design can significantly reduce energy consumption, potentially saving up to 90% on energy bills.

The California wildfires are still ravaging the Los Angeles area a week after they started. The stories of residents who live in the area and have lost everything are heartbreaking. Against this ...

Due for completion this year, the Cornell Tech campus going up on Roosevelt Island in New York is edging closer to seeing the world’s tallest Passive House building erected. The building in question ...

Following a slew of national natural disasters—most recently the Southern California wildfires and the historic winter storm that hit Southern states—interest in durable and sustainable architectural ...

When he first heard about Passivhaus, Germany’s rigorous energy-efficiency building standard, architect Matthew O’Malia thought, “That’s crazy: a foot-thick wall, all this insulation in the foundation ...

New tests by nk Architects show that it cuts the noise in half. When Passive House started in the 90s, it was all about energy, and that is what the basic standard regulates. But saving energy is a ...

Architect Chris Benedict’s wedged foam and stucco exterior facade marks 803 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, a 24-unit affordable passive house development. (Celeste Sloman) With hyper-efficient ...

We love Passive House or Passivhaus, the incredibly efficient building standard that sets an absolute limit on how much energy one can use per square foot or how much air is allowed to leak. The ...

The future of green building: New Jersey’s first internationally certified Passive House. RAMSEY, N.J. — By some definitions, Darren Macri is a futurist — fully focused on exploring the possibilities ...

MONTEREY – There is an initiative afoot to find ways to reduce the carbon emissions at the root of climate change by incorporating proven construction methods in housing and commercial buildings that ...

The GO Logic Home designed by architect Matthew O'Malia is a Passive House built with Structural Insulated panels and a timber frame People in the United States as well as many around the world are ...