Buildings

On top of racking up big savings, a new report finds that Canadian households could dramatically reduce climate pollution from home heating with heat pumps

Buildings

Lighting a fire under Europe’s green buildings policies

John Lorinc

A coalition of progressive businesses is urging the EU to deal with its glut of energy-guzzling buildings and embrace ambitious energy efficiency plan

Buildings

Can we build greener homes with used diapers? These engineers did

Gaye Taylor

Researchers in Japan found that nappies can be used to replace up to 40% of the sand used in concrete without reducing its strength

Buildings

Toronto is the latest city to crackdown on carbon-heavy building materials

John Lorinc

There's mounting awareness around the carbon intensity of garden-variety materials such as cement, concrete, steel, glass and aluminum

Buildings | Spring 2023

When buildings mimic nature

John Lorinc

Decades of sustainable design have done little to reduce building-related carbon emissions. But could biomimicry finally get buildings, and with them cities, to bridge that gap?

Buildings

The 15-minute city is not an affront to freedom

Alex Nurse, Alessia Calafiore and Richard J. Dunning

OPINION | How an innocuous urban planning concept to build a walkable 15-minute city has attracted the attention of conspiracy theorists

Buildings | Winter 2023

How today’s green building heroes are scaling up to save our planet

BF Nagy

Meet the teams behind the most exciting green architectural achievements in North America to learn how they’re scaling up the building blocks of the green revolution