Green Home & Building

On a sunny Earth Day in Seattle, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the new Bullitt Center, which is being called the “greenest commercial building” in the world.

New technology offers a way to seal an entire house in the space of an hour, producing a degree of airtightness today’s builders can only dream of.

A photo-rich book lays out the details of the Passive House approach to saving energy.

The National Renewable Energy Lab is hoping to save $1 million in data-center energy costs by using a warm-water method to dissipate heat from petascale servers.

When buildings wear a familiar sun-block ingredient, they can neutralize a gas that makes both smog and global warming.

All urban buildings should do what they can to reduce their carbon footprints — even those whose residents weigh up to 4 tons and tend to leave enormous actual footprints.

The nearly completed Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, near Seattle, will prove that it is possible to be a steward of both the arts and the environment at the same time.

A high-end condo building on the Melbourne waterfront currently leads the pack of new wood-framed buildings.

Rather than let its unused helipad sit idle, Coca-Cola’s Mexico City subsidiary converted it into a green roof and a reconditioned co-working office space.

Vietnamese architects publish a low-cost tradition-based modular house plan using the most sustainable material: bamboo.

A proposed primary school in Tiantai County, China, includes a clever rooftop natural-grass track that can reduce its carbon footprint while improving the health of its young students.

A Boston developer defies a city ordinance to require parking spaces in his proposed apartment complex by converting an equivalent amount of space into gardens and other green spaces.

Self-repairing and bendable technologies may make concrete more efficient and longer-lasting.

Basic LEED certification may not have the respect it once had. But when 37 office buildings and 6 million square feet of space earn LEED certs all at once, it deserves a nod of recognition.