GLOBAL
Our cities, designed for one set of climatic ranges, are increasingly "out of place" as average temperatures rise. The days above 40°C and nights above 30°C are...
Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021
GLOBAL
One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases...
Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021
GLOBAL
Throughout the world, architects are designing green buildings, whether it's in their sustainable construction, environmentally friendly operation or actually green by style...
Norman Day 4 Jan 2021
GLOBAL
Researchers from the University of Patras in Greece have been named the winners of the Grohe Water Research Prize - part of the World Architecture Festival annual awards programme...
GLOBAL
A new report from Asite, Smart retrofitting: The key to decarbonizing the built environment, examines how the construction industry can mitigate carbon emissions through the smart retrofitting of built assets...
GLOBAL
Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions...
Roberto Minunno, Greg Morrison, Richard L. Gruner, Timothy Michael O'Grady 12 Nov 2020
GLOBAL
Coined by the United Nations General Assembly, World Cities Day is celebrated annually on 31 October...
GLOBAL
Delivering an opening keynote to the first United Nations Forum of Mayors earlier this month in Geneva, Switzerland, Norman Foster, founder and executive chairman of Foster + Partners, said the coronavirus pandemic will not change cities in the long term...
GLOBAL
August 22 was Earth Overshoot Day, which marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year...
Brant Walkley 31 Aug 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
Diageo is building its first carbon-neutral distillery in the United States. The $130m distillery, which will produce Bulleit bourbon, is currently under construction...
GLOBAL
The enormous death toll in New York City, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US, led New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, to write...
Colin McFarlane 8 Jun 2020
GLOBAL
More than 50 mayors and governors from cities across the world will attend the 10th World Urban Forum (WUF10) in Abu Dhabi from 8-13 February...
GLOBAL
Entries in the 6th International LafargeHolcim Awards for sustainable construction will close on 25 February...
UNITED STATES
Yale University has teamed up with UN Environment and UN Habitat to design a new super-sustainable eco-housing module...
