Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

When designing facades, various factors can influence their conception. From compositional, geographic, and environmental elements, facades incorporate a series of gestures that shape the building ...

What if public art could also power an entire residential building? The SunRise Building, an apartment complex in Alberta, Canada, has answered that question — and is now the title holder of the ...

Designers no longer need to sacrifice aesthetics to achieve the benefits of building-integrated photovoltaics in canopies and walkways. New solar PV canopy systems from Duo-GardIndustries Inc. are ...

Retrofitting old buildings or quickly adding traditional solar panels cannot keep pace with the current rate of urbanisation.

The latest report from Task 15, a global project set up to address barriers related to building integrated PV (BIPV) by the IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (IEA-PVPS), provides an ...

A Luma Solar roofing system with integrated PV is now a key feature of a sustainable building on the Yale University campus.

“A few people felt that only so much could be said about adobe.” This quote, from an adobe building magazine achieving its one-year anniversary in 1975, forms an epigraph to the introduction to Albert ...

The sun’s influence on human life encompasses multiple dimensions, from biological and developmental aspects to religious-mythological connotations in civilizations such as the Egyptians and Romans.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cells. Interestingly, ...

As New York City accelerates its push toward sustainability, solar energy is rapidly becoming a focal point for developers and architects across the five boroughs. With the city’s local laws mandating ...

The University of Virginia has about 550 buildings, from the 19th-century UNESCO World Heritage Site that is the Academical Village to newly constructed, energy-efficient tech centers with solar ...