This past November, city of Berkeley voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure GG, a proposed tax on natural gas use in large buildings, by greater than a 2:1 margin. This measure would have nearly ...

The environmental goalpost for buildings has been moved. Clients don’t just want to cut VOCs and energy use, they want architects to help them significantly reduce a project’s carbon ...

One of the most commonly accepted methods of analyzing a product’s environmental impacts is life cycle assessment. An LCA is a comprehensive measure of the total environmental impact of a product, ...

Thermal bridges represent discontinuities in the insulation layer of building envelopes, where conductive materials enable an increased rate of heat transfer between the interior and exterior ...