Topic: Innovation

A water-based approach to designing windows promises impressive energy efficiencies in operations of buildings.

Blue-green infrastructure provides multiple benefits to humans and ecosystems, including health and biodiversity, but little data exists on economic benefit.

Over the past two decades there has been a push by a range of companies, communities, and governments for a higher level of sustainable infrastructure. However, to achieve sustainable development in infrastructure, you must first procure sustainable goods and services. The International Organization for Standardization defines sustainable procurement as positive environmental, social, and economic impacts possible over the entire life cycle. Considered a business...

The E-Bin app – which can be downloaded for free in the Apple app store or Google Play store – simplifies the recycling process while also incentivizing behavior by establishing a system of rewards.

An international architecture firm has released the design of a health spa in eastern Nepal that will capture moisture from fog and convert it into water.

Duke University researchers are taking the temperature of landslides to help predict sudden, catastrophic failures of the moving land masses.

Using aerial images from disaster scenes, a new Japanese artificial intelligence model is able to quickly evaluate building damage.

A Maryland school district entered into a public-private partnership that will design, build, finance, and maintain six public schools.

Daylight and shading studies helped create the new facade on a South Korean skyscraper that incorporates the firm’s own solar panels.

Microplastics are a potentially dangerous emerging pollutant in water supplies. A team of Georgia Tech students may have just solved the problem.