The good news is, a gust of wind is free. The bad news is, most of them are outside your home. Bringing those light breezes into your residences could be challenging for some. And it gets even more ...

“Passive house” can rank pretty far up the list of inadvertently misleading phrases. Realizing the momentous energy-saving potential of this approach requires plenty of active effort on the part of ...

Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, D.C., designed by Perkins Eastman, is LEED Platinum–certified and one of the most energy-efficient high schools in the U.S. (Courtesy Perkins ...

This article is part of The Architect’s Newspaper’s “Passive Aggressive” feature on passive design strategies. Not to be confused with “Passivhaus” or “Passive House” certification, passive design ...

This autumn, the 120-year-old design school will be adding a comprehensive, highly interactive course to its already robust Sustainable Design Institute online offerings, focusing in on the core ...

Back home in Scotland, David Arnott was accustomed to houses with triple-glazed windows, well-insulated walls and rainscreen siding “because it’s freezing . . . and the key thing we had up there was ...

Passive design is architectural design that eliminates the need for mechanical heating and cooling of a building through the use of smart, time-tested heating and cooling strategies such as natural ...

As revolutionary as the construction sector may seem nowadays, it currently accounts for nearly 40% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, 11% of which are a result of manufacturing building ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. Passivity isn’t a characteristic valued around many office ...