With climate change already an urgent challenge and buildings accounting for significant carbon emissions, sustainable design is more critical than ever. For architects and designers to create ...

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ASHRAE recently released a new Building Performance Standards Technical Resource Guide. Building Performance Standards (BPS): A Technical Resource Guide was created to provide a technical basis for ...

Building performance standards are being successfully implemented in Boulder, Colorado; Tokyo; the United Kingdom; and the Netherlands. Building performance standards are being successfully ...

The landscape of building performance standards, energy efficiency and carbon reduction regulations is evolving fast. As new city and state laws emerge, it can be hard for a property owner to know ...

Building performance is a hallmark of architecture in the 21st century. With buildings and the construction industry being significant contributors to carbon emissions, designers must do everything to ...

District energy systems can accelerate decarbonization of buildings in cities. The clock is ticking for building owners in U.S. cities that have enacted performance standards to reduce greenhouse gas ...

This summer, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek recently signed into law an ambitious, $90 million climate package to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and leverage as much as $1 billion in federal ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Larry Zarker, CEO of the Building Performance Institute (BPI), plans to retire this fall. Zarker, who has more than 40 years of experience in the residential buildings sector, ...

This blog post was authored by Mo Elsayed Senior Associate and Senior Building Performance Analyst, Page; Jill Kurtz, LEED AP BD+ C, Principal and Director of Building Sciences, Page; and Justin ...