Smart textiles for buildings represent a bold leap forward in construction materials—where fiber technology meets structural engineering to create lightweight, high-performance fabric systems that ...

They see the increased use of this sustainable material as a way to develop greener homes and buildings while creating jobs. At its current scale, however, hemp is too expensive to compete with less ...

Discover the top 5 strategies the building and construction industry must adopt to reach Net Zero by 2050—from cutting ...

Design and construction professionals know that buildings are responsible for 37% of global carbon emissions and significantly contribute to a company’s carbon footprint. Embodied carbon ...

AA Dossier guest editor Chris Knapp brings together perspectives from a range of experts as well as project case studies to ...

Rahman Azari, associate professor of architecture in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture's Stuckeman School, will discuss his book, "The ...

“Newly built or refurbished buildings with strong sustainability credentials command higher rents, lower vacancy rates and provide greater resilience against an evolving regulatory environment. Assets ...

To gauge mass timber’s more comprehensive carbon output, Corgan has developed a Mass Timber Carbon Calculator, which helps ...

Not all advances in architecture involve physical buildings. Software giant Autodesk created Total Carbon Analysis for Architects, a digital tool that makes the evaluation of embodied and ...

In 2024, Trane Technologies announced its own commitment to reduce embodied carbon by 40% by 2030, an industry first, building on the Gigaton Challenge, the largest science-based climate ...