As businesses grapple with the current energy crisis and prepare for it to worsen, new research from JLL finds that these rising energy costs are expediting the move toward more efficient buildings.

The U.S. Department of Energy applauded Milwaukee recently for its energy-saving initiatives. The City is among 130 partners – ranging from municipal to commercial to industrial – that signed on to ...

After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...

An international research group investigated hybrid heat pumps (HHPs) as a technically and economically feasible solution to decarbonizing heat supply in old residential buildings and found that it ...

You've seen pictures and video of the damage from the Napa earthquake. Many of the damaged buildings had previously been retrofitted. When Sunday's 6.0 earthquake rolled through Napa, the city's old ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some of the buildings that collapsed during the massive earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are known as non-ductile concrete structures. "The thing about concrete is it's very ...

An unusual conservation battle is brewing on Oxford Street, London’s busy shopping avenue. Marks and Spencer, a British retail giant famous for high quality groceries and affordable homeware, wants to ...

Westminster City Council is to adopt a Retrofit First policy to reduce carbon emissions and boost affordable housing ...

LOS ANGELES --Thousands of older wood and concrete apartment buildings that would be vulnerable to collapse in a major earthquake would get costly upgrades under sweeping retrofitting rules passed ...

Mayor Gavin Newsom's second attempt at encouraging property owners to voluntarily retrofit vulnerable buildings was endorsed by the city's Planning Commission on Thursday. The proposal would expedite ...

SEATTLE -- A major earthquake is expected to hit Seattle, but according to the city more than 1,000 buildings are in need of major retrofitting. On Monday, the Seattle City Council heard from their ...