Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

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 ...

This old adage is one that craftsmen understand well and never question. Careful measurement and planning is essential in producing any quality product, and when it comes to the building industry, a ...

Most of a building’s carbon pollution doesn’t come from construction., instead it builds up quietly during decades of daily ...

Researchers used a supercomputer to model every building serviced by the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga -- all 178,368 of them -- and discovered through more than 2 million simulations that EPB ...

They say hindsight is 20/20. “If only we knew then what we know now, we would’ve done things differently.” While it’s always good to evaluate outcomes, what if there was a way to look into the future ...

Building buildings in New York City is challenging for many reasons. As the president and CEO of an NYC-based general contracting firm, I've seen that first and foremost, the most difficult things to ...

China can build its way to a more energy efficient future -- one house, apartment and retail store at a time -- by improving the rules regulating these structures, according to a new study. Scientists ...