An unusual conservation battle is brewing on Oxford Street, London’s busy shopping avenue. Marks and Spencer, a British retail giant famous for high quality groceries and affordable homeware, wants to ...

With New York state's ambitious decarbonization and deep energy retrofit (DER) goals, the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) ecosystem is tasked with developing retrofit approaches for ...

A recent study by JLL of 32 global urban centres revealed that the real estate sector accounts for an average 60% of overall carbon emissions, exceeding the World Green Building Council's current ...

Though Yale’s newly constructed buildings must meet stringent sustainability standards, the bulk of its properties fall short of these standards — and retrofitting buildings still presents a ...

A 2022 analysis by Cushman & Wakefield estimated that in the U.S., approximately 330 million square feet of office space could become functionally obsolete or stranded by 2030. This risk arises from ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Thursday announced $173.8 million in new grant and loan awards under the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP), which brings the ...

Buildings account for approximately 30% of global energy consumption and 26% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. In cities like Toronto, Boston, New ...

An Art Deco-style building that made history in Newark as the country’s first passenger airport terminal in 1934 now has an improbable new title: it’s the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s ...

President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal unveiled Wednesday includes a suite of measures to fight climate change, including billions to transition to electric vehicles (EVs), retrofit ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. A decade ago, I was president of Architectural Conservancy ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released guidelines for its Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) that has $4.8 billion for funding green projects. Eligible ...