What widespread adoption of electric buildings and vehicles will do to our power grid — and budgets.

Robert Kennedy said, “If our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.” Let’s find those opportunities and create something better.

The current pandemic is boosting interest in various styles of homes that are remote and self-sufficient.

HVAC professionals take another look at IAQ since so many of us are spending more time at home.

Clean-energy systems are less expensive at scale, project teams are more educated, and data collection is completely integrated.

Pssst! Want to know a secret? It’s not going to be that hard to construct clean energy homes at scale.

If engineering superiority and cultural stigmatism don’t persuade you, the compelling economics of electric vehicles likely will.

My last two columns have, instead, reviewed the critical modern technologies shaping our 2010s and 2020s built environment. It’s time to return to some actual projects.

As we prepare to welcome a new decade, let’s take a look back at the key clean building technologies that began to emerge in our industry — and that may be critical to our health and wellbeing in the future.

During Climate Week in New York City in late September, while millions of schoolchildren marched in the streets in more than 1,000 cities to protest lack of action on climate breakdown, their leader, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, was in New York telling adults to stop acting like children.