The next destination: Passive design airports

Today, we can design airports that are climate resilient, durable, long-lasting, and healthy for occupants—we can design airports using Passive House standards.

Codes and Standards

ICC eliminates building electrification provisions from 2024 update

The International Code Council stripped out provisions from the 2024 update to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) that would have included beefed up circuitry for hooking up electric appliances and car chargers.

Industrial Facilities

Confessions of a cold storage architect

Designing energy-efficient cold storage facilities that keep food safe and look beautiful takes special knowledge.

Sustainability

3 sustainable design decisions to make early

In her experience as an architect, Megan Valentine AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, WELL AP, Fitwel, Director of Sustainability, KTGY has found three impactful sustainable design decisions: site selection, massing and orientation, and proper window-to-wall ratios.

Enermodal staff at the firms annual employee conference (opposite) and Enermoda

Mar 21, 2013

Best Firms to Work For: Enermodal Engineering is green to the core

At Enermodal Engineering, there’s only one kind of building—a sustainable one.

Rob Cassidy | Feb 14, 2013

Finally, a look at actual energy use in real buildings, in a real city

New York City’s recent report on energy and water use in 2,065 commercial buildings (totaling more…

Minneapolis is the latest major metro to require large commercial buildings to b

Smart Buildings | Feb 14, 2013

Minneapolis joins energy benchmarking trend for commercial buildings

Minneapolis is the latest major metro to require large commercial buildings to benchmark and disclose their energy and water use.

Feb 13, 2013

EYP Energy and The Weidt Group merge

February 13, 2013 – EYP Energy, a division of EYP, Inc., today announced a strategic merger with…

See Rob Cassidys interview with Tom Hootman on how NZE buildings are creating a

Jan 2, 2013

Recent books take on net-zero energy,‘transformational thought’

We’re not in the habit of recommending books in these pages, but we could not ignore two recent noteworthy publications.

Dec 13, 2012

Survey: energy-efficient building technologies to drive long-term energy savings

Greater adoption of existing efficiency technologies, enabled by chemistry, could lower energy use in buildings by 41% by 2050, according to new report.