Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. As the demand for built environment grows, the inevitable ...

Picture this: You’ve just bought and moved into your first home. You’ve found the right shade of eggshell paint for the walls and family pictures have been hung. The house is really starting to feel ...

Retrofitting represents one of the best opportunities to improve the environment in our cities. Two-thirds of the buildings that exist today will still be standing in 2050, and since buildings account ...

Imagine a suburban backyard swimming pool as a tilapia farm. Or rail transit on every big city corridor. That could be the future of "retrofitting suburbia," a method of transforming existing suburban ...

The road to clean energy and decarbonization of our built environment has never been more relevant than it is today. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in collaboration with the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Shuttered shopping malls, foreclosed homes and businesses, and ...

From wind turbines receiving cargo by drone to unmanned drilling rigs producing oil, offshore operations are being automated. For geotechnical exploration vessels, retrofitting automation solutions ...

As mentioned earlier, most new systems will be manufactured with R-410A. However, the question of what is the best retrofit refrigerant blend for existing R-22 systems is often asked by technicians ...

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 ...

Minnesota boasts some notable milestones in the construction of suburbs and their features, including the first enclosed shopping mall (Southdale, designed by Austrian-American theater artist and ...