BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green buildings are already the construction industry’s highest growth sector. This is part of a broader shift towards more energy efficient construction that is driving ...

Boulder Community Health’s West Medical Building, with its hybrid vacuum-insulated glass installation and two inches of continuous rigid insulation, and the Lubber Run Community Center, Arlington, Va.

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 ...

The building envelope, the barrier between the interior and exterior environments, plays a central role in enhancing energy efficiency, occupant comfort, and overall building performance. In both ...

2019 saw significant movement throughout the commercial energy code landscape. In addition to a large number of states adopting newer code cycles, we saw more interest than ever in the building ...

Advancements in Building Energy Modeling This year’s Building Simulation conference really dug into how we can make ...

Thermal bridges, insulation defects, and air leakage in the building envelope form hidden energy gaps. These inefficiencies force HVAC systems to operate under sustained high loads, driving up energy ...

Thermal bridges, insulation defects and building envelope air leakage can form hidden energy gaps, or inefficiencies that force HVAC systems to operate under sustained high loads that drive up energy ...

Research areas: Solar Energy Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy. Integrated photovoltaics/solar energy utilization systems, Modeling, optimization and control of building systems, ...

“Energy Audit for Building Systems: An Engineering Approach, First Edition”, First Edition, M. Krarti, textbook, CRC Press, 500 pages, published in 2000. “Energy Audit for Building Systems: An ...

In the past, the detail design of a building envelope would have been the domain of the envelope package subcontractor, usually working for the main contractor. The subcontractor would have worked ...

Dynamic windows and high-tech insulation are poised to gain an $829 million foothold in the world construction market by 2020, says Lux Research. Green buildings are already the construction ...