Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Calculating the carbon footprint of buildings can be tricky ...

A lot of planning and decisions are involved in the construction of a new farm building. Morton Buildings, of Illinois, now makes it easier for farmers to participate in the process with the ...

As the fight against climate change heats up, Cove.Tool is looking to help tackle carbon emissions one building at a time. In the US, the buildings we live and work in contribute more carbon emissions ...

Big buildings — and the construction industry — are a huge consumer of energy and driver of carbon emissions. Cove.tool, a software company that was built from an energy-modeling practice, cuts the ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. In an Australian first, the interactive digital tool uses a data-driven ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – How many times have you walked through the house turning off lights or unplugging things to save energy? The City of Albuquerque has found a new way to do that at city buildings in ...

The U.S. Green Building Council unveiled a Web-based tool to research buildings that have achieved LEED status at the Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in San Francisco this month. The Green ...

There are a lot of great reasons to build your own custom shelves. You get to choose the color and grain of the wood for starters, but the main benefit is that you get to customize the dimensions. No ...