Correspondent Heating and lighting buildings requires a vast amount of energy: 18% of all global energy consumption, according to the International Energy Agency. Contributing to the problem is the ...

A new machine learning approach developed through an international collaboration between Polytechnic University of Milan and Drexel University could help architects and urban planners better predict ...

A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial -- an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature -- to act as a kind of ...

Suppose you meet with an architect and ask her to design a building. You tell her the design you'd like, the size, and where it will be located. You might also specify the level of energy efficiency ...

Last month, a South Carolina college newspaper had an interesting piece on what people, particularly college students, could do to help reduce energy consumption – changing thermostat settings when ...

Evaluating the Implementation of Energy Adaptive Reuse in Historic Buildings: A Case Study of the Historical Raghadan Hotel ...

Drawing inspiration from the veinous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings ...