With your thermostat it's all about location. If you've placed it in the wrong spot, it could be driving up your power bill.

As cities grow and energy use climbs, the need for smarter buildings becomes urgent. Nearly half of a building’s energy goes ...

Claudia Wilch said she and her cat, Biscuit, cast a concerned glance at each other when the temperature in their Babcock ...

1) A three-pronged approach is needed across efficiency, electrification and embodied carbon According to the report, buildings account for 33% of global CO2 emissions, with 26% coming from ...

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has officially inaugurated the 18th edition of Light + Intelligent Building Middle East, the leading event in the ...

Buildings make up about 30%-40% of the total – even more than industry or transport. This comes largely from heating, cooling and ventilation systems, with air conditioning especially energy-hungry.

Air leaks cost us dearly. According to the Energy Star program, most people could save about 20 percent on their heating and cooling costs by sealing up air leaks. Most older homes are riddled ...

Inefficient building design and orientation can increase the energy consumption of heating, cooling, and lighting. Buildings far from public transportation hubs or in areas with high congestion ...

A building was simulated in DesignBuilder software to explore how different window-to-wall ratios affect energy consumption. Using a parametric algorithm, the percentage of windows on each building ...

Bankside Yards is using a “fifth-generation” combined heating and cooling network that can balance energy within each building and then between buildings by collecting unwanted heat, say from ...

And the consequence today is also climatic because we know that 39 percent of the CO2 emissions are from building. So, architecture is creating a climate change by heating, cooling, [and] using ...