Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 20:35:14 +0000
Today, society faces 3 major challenges in the built environment: ensuring building safety, improving sustainability, and addressing our affordable housing crisis.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:05:13 +0000
Boston’s pending green building code is an important element of many challenges that Wu will need to solve for Boston’s Green New Deal to become a truly just recovery.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:25:36 +0000
The first installment of a 5-year, $225 million US program to support building energy code adoption, training, and technical assistance at the state and local level is beginning.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:45:00 +0000
Recently, these terms have been front and center for millions of Americans. Between historic federal legislation, intensifying natural disasters and rising electricity prices, the clean energy transition is more relevant and urgent than ever. However, a quiet storm is brewing that risks undercutting American clean energy and climate progress. A proposed change to the 2024 […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:00:28 +0000
Babcock Ranch and Punta Gorda both survived Hurricane Ian with little damage, thanks to robust building codes and good planning.
Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:51:11 +0000
Although the electricity generation and transportation sectors account for a far greater share of greenhouse gas emissions than the residential and commercial building sector, policy makers are targeting building electrification as a means for making a significant contribution to economy-wide emission reductions. Federal, state, and local governments are using various policy levers toward this goal, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 15:33:47 +0000
The Los Angeles City Council voted on Friday to prohibit fossil fuels in new construction. The Council directed departments to develop a plan over the next six months “that will require all new residential and commercial buildings in Los Angeles to be built so that they will achieve zero-carbon emissions.” The plans are expected to […]
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:00:03 +0000
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO) has issued a request for information (RFI) to gather responses from the public that will inform the program development and execution of Section 40511 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This provision makes $225 million available over the next five years to state agencies and partnerships to help drive the […]