Tall buildings represent a pinnacle of modern engineering and architectural ingenuity, embodying the vertical expansion of urban environments and the quest for sustainable densification. The design of ...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

Multiple buildings on Penn’s campus have been designated with certifications from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. The buildings — which include the Vagelos Laboratory for ...

Two Dartmouth buildings — the Irving Institute for Energy and Society and Anonymous Hall — received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Certifications by the United States Green Building ...

The Urban Sequoia NOW model imagined by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) poses the question of whether buildings can act like trees: capturing carbon, purifying the air and restoring the environment?

Autodesk's Forma Building Design aims to give architects and engineers level 200 and 300 design capabilities such as this daylight analysis while not replacing the detailed geometry in Revit but, ...

Recognizing New York City’s housing shortage and surplus office space, Vanbarton Group engaged Gensler to convert an aging downtown office tower into a 588-unit residential building with extensive ...

It’s hot. 2023 was by far the warmest recorded year on the planet, and 2024 is on pace to beat it. For half a century, humanity has known that climate change would be the inevitable consequence of ...

A man in a hard hat stands on some scaffolding and bemoans how he’s forgotten his tools. He whips out a touch screen and a robot below springs into action. The robot and the YouTube clip it stars in ...

The entrance to the Gray Design Building, which features steel stairs leading to the second floor. The stairs were made in Northern Kentucky and weigh 30,000 pounds. Monica Kast ...