Software developer Bentley Systems has doubled down on its emphasis on open data standards and data lakes for design and construction, introducing two products earlier this month—OpenSite+ for civil ...

Every building tells many stories, and one of those stories is how it impacts the environment. To understand that story, we can look at the greenhouse gas emissions of all the materials used to erect ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: TILE), the global flooring solutions company and leader in sustainability, today announced that it is making it easier for customers to understand ...

Buildings are ideas made physical. They carry silent histories. They manifest culture, values, and technologies. And they also embody environmental impact. In terms of numbers, buildings account for ...

For 12 years, LPA and Edwards Lifesciences (ELS) have been collaborating on the expansion of the medical technology company’s 42-acre campus in Irvine, Calif., designing each element around evolving ...

When the architect David J. Lewis agreed to become dean of the School of Constructed Environments at the Parsons School of Design in New York in 2021, his goal he says, was to “radically decarbonize ...

Paula Melton writes an important article, and raises some serious questions about our beloved mass timber construction. We have said before that we should be thinking about embodied carbon in ...

Build decisions lock in a data center’s carbon footprint before operations ever start. A lifecycle assessment (LCA) report reveals how those choices shape long-term carbon efficiency Data center ...

In Embodying Design (on sale March 22, 2022 from the MIT Press), author Christopher Baber looks to rethink design. Baber—who serves as Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing in the School of ...