Modern "sustainable"' innovations in architecture are failing to slow climate change, but revisiting ancient knowledge and techniques found in traditional architecture could offer better solutions.

Product designers and engineers can help to significantly reduce the environmental impact of products by making sure that they change the way they design new products, by taking into account the ...

These clever innovations are leading the way towards a more sustainable bathroom, while also being bold and exciting design ...

Flooding and wildfires are leaving the world damaged, but how will we rebuild? That is a question that comes up time and time again. Concrete blocks and wood framed 2×4’s are both commonly used ...

Many architects and designers were caught dead in their tracks when the recent economic downturn struck. Standard architecture in Los Angeles successfully powers through by taking sustainable action, ...

Consistent Engineering Consultants is a Business Reporter client. The construction industry is responsible for 39 per cent of global CO 2 emissions. How can it transform itself and contribute to a ...

The future of the world looks, at the moment, to be rather pessimistic, but there are plenty of designers and thinkers out there who are trying to make life greener and more sustainable — often ...

With growing concerns about the construction industry's contribution to climate change, sustainable design is more important than ever. As the year comes to a close, we toast the best, most ...

Ten projects have been named the top examples of sustainable and ecological design by the AIA and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) for the year 2015. Now in its 19th edition, the COTE Top Ten ...

Systems thinking is required to create a sustainable future. With its many interacting systems, sustainable design is too complicated to be addressed in a linear fashion, as is typically the case.

It is hard, writing about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater on a website devoted to sustainable design and living. It is possibly one of the most unsustainable buildings ever constructed, needing ...