Building permits are approvals for construction of new and existing privately owned homes. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) release a monthly ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new national definition of a zero emissions building. The definition is intended to provide industry guidance to support new and existing commercial and ...

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has launched the latest iteration of its globally recognised sustainability ...

ATLANTA — ASHRAE is applauding the recent release from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of the first part of a standardized, verifiable basis for defining a zero-emissions building. The “National ...

The Department of Energy released a Request for Information (RFI) for feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on a draft national ...

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The U.S. Green Building Council reports that LEED-certified buildings decrease their energy consumption by 25%, while simultaneously cutting carbon emissions by 34%, and lowering water consumption by ...

On its face, the concept of a zero-emissions building is straightforward. It’s a building that produces zero emissions. Right? Well, yes, technically. But how it does so is less than clear, according ...

Or, as Sam Joslin, president of the Massachusetts Building Commissioners and Inspectors Association, put it, “A lot of times, ...