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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.
The Biden Administration recently released “Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector,” a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has opened the first public comment period for the first draft of LEED v5. The new version of the LEED green building rating system will drive deep decarbonization, quality of life improvements, and ecological conservation and restoration, USGBC says.
Boston has placed significant aspects of its plan to protect the city from rising sea levels on the actions of private developers. Amid a post-Covid commercial development slump, though, efforts to build protective infrastructure have stalled.
The product-specific EPDs allow designers to more quickly earn a LEED v4 credit in the Materials & Resources category.
The mixed-use towers would each rise 36 stories into the sky and connect via rooftop skybridges.
The new habitat will sit between two existing buildings, including the Elephant House designed by Norman Foster.
Over 70 new acres of public space would be created between Ohio Street and North Avenue.
The plants will represent 250 species found in South Korea.
The project will be covered in 1,100 trees and 2,500 cascading plants and shrubs.
Over it’s 60-year lifespan, the power generated form the project would cover the energy cost of construction, production, and material transportation.
At the heart of Vincent Callebaut Architectures’ eco-neighborhood will be three 100-meter-tall Vertical Forests.
To help one of the most complex cities in the world develop an actionable strategy to meet visionary GHG reduction goals, we focused on strategies for deep carbon reductions for the city’s entire building stock, which constitutes 73% of citywide emissions, writes HDR's Jennifer Bienemann.
Research on piezoelectricity moves closer to practical applications for infrastructure and buildings.
