After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

The majority of, if not all, office buildings will go through a series of office space retrofits over the course of time. For those commercial building owners who lease space within their building(s) ...

Data centers are consuming electricity at an astounding rate. Currently they represent about 5% of the total electrical use in the country. According to the report “Revolutionizing Data Center Energy ...

Butler Manufacturing has introduced three high-efficiency wall systems that enable community and industrial building decision-makers to prepare for anticipated changes to energy codes. The patented ...

NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - America's skyscrapers, many built before World War Two, are showing their age. IBM's "building whisperer," Dave Bartlett, believes many of these buildings could use a diet.

Retrofitting old buildings or quickly adding traditional solar panels cannot keep pace with the current rate of urbanisation.