Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Calculating the carbon footprint of buildings can be tricky ...

New Tool Helps Prioritize Remediation of Buildings with Combustible Facades EFFECT™, an Exterior Facade Fire Evaluation Comparison Tool, was needed because enforcement authorities and those ...

A new, free software tool from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could prove to be a breath of fresh air for architects and designers of ventilation systems for "green" ...

The research group ARDITEC from the Higher Technical School of Building Engineering at the University of Seville has led a pioneering European project to calculate the environmental impact of ...

Cove.tool is an energy vs. cost optimization software for the AEC industry. It offers users the ability to simulate the material performance of a building in its context by assessing energy against ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. In an Australian first, the interactive digital tool uses a data-driven ...

As the fight against climate change heats up, Cove.Tool is looking to help tackle carbon emissions one building at a time. In the US, the buildings we live and work in contribute more carbon emissions ...

Minnesota’s “B3” sustainable building program is intended to make the state’s building stock greener and more energy efficient, but it’s not just about constructing to a certain standard and then ...