Clutch City Passive has brought nature to the city in a remarkable way, and the stunning, high-performance home may have people thinking twice about the wisdom of traditional construction techniques.

As the construction industry moves toward greener solutions, the push for sustainable, energy-efficient buildings grows. Global energy consumption for buildings accounts for nearly 40% of total energy ...

Passive house construction — that super-tight energy efficient design invented by the Germans — has gone from a niche concept to a mainstream one in the 10 years since the first passive house building ...

Concerns about climate change have been growing. It is now becoming more and more evident from extreme weather events, storms, heatwaves and polar vortexes. Those in turn are affecting not just going ...

Developer A.J. Patton remembers when his mother received a $400 gas bill during a frigid Chicago winter in 1999. She worked in a cafeteria at the time, money was tight, and there was already a hole in ...

When he first heard about Passivhaus, Germany’s rigorous energy-efficiency building standard, architect Matthew O’Malia thought, “That’s crazy: a foot-thick wall, all this insulation in the foundation ...