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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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Reporting, research, products, and practical ideas for better buildings and cities.
Jan 2022
The What: BayREN provides free engineering technical assistance to help local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area…
Jan 2022
With the signing of the new Federal Sustainability Executive Order the current administration has set forth aggressive goals…
Explore the systems
Four concise briefings connect the projects, materials, policies, and systems shaping better buildings.
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Net zero, electrification, efficiency, and renewable systems.
Sep 2019
Dec 2018
Oct 2018
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Products, healthy materials, embodied carbon, and reuse.
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Projects, housing, planning, resilience, and urban systems.
Jan 2020
Jul 2019
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Research, professional education, policy, and applied practice.
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…
Products · Mar 2019
Editor’s Note: Each award-winning team contributed to this article by providing a description of its product. Last month, fifty plus…
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