Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden ...

Building decarbonization – through electrification and energy efficiency – is key to expanding the clean energy economy and reaching ambitious climate goals, but it’s one area where even governments ...

“This year’s conference emphasized the importance of considering not only a building’s energy consumption during operation, but also its carbon footprint throughout its lifecycle, while keeping ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, a national coalition that includes nine major cities and counties launched a turnkey building decarbonization program that aims to rapidly scale up the deployment ...

Policy experts will examine Building Performance Standards, including ways to simplify compliance while supporting long-term building decarbonization ATLANTA, GA — ASHRAE has released the technical ...

Constructing new buildings and single-family homes to be all-electric out of the gate, as opposed to merely “electric-ready”, is likely an economically preferable route to building decarbonization, a ...

As CEO of Legence, Jeff Sprau is helping to prepare built environment spaces–and people–for a climate-resilient future. Buildings are central to our lives, with Americans spending the overwhelming ...

Commercial, multifamily, and industrial buildings – both new and existing – face barriers to decarbonization amid competing demands and growing pressure from legislation and consumers. But there are ...

New Buildings Institute (NBI) has released the Existing Building Decarbonization Code. NBI bills the document as “a new way for jurisdictions to reduce carbon emissions and meet climate action plan ...

For industrial and commercial facilities, simultaneous heating and cooling needs across a building, or even a single floor, bring challenges to both near-term energy management and long-term ...

This regulatory landscape is also changing in character, not just in geography. Many of the earliest ordinances only required owners to publish basic energy data each year—a simple disclosure exercise ...

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