Conservationists are hailing the passage last week by the U.S. House of Representatives of the Bird-Safe Buildings Act. 

If all goes according to plan, construction of Atlassian headquarters could begin early next year on a 40-story hybrid timber-and-structural-steel office building in Sydney, Australia

Designers, contractor in Portland, Ore., invest in the first resilient ‘Living’ office building

Proposal unveiled by DeFazio is silent on how to pay for the $138-billion trust-fund infusion needed to fully fund it.

Creators of the free-to-use Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator have added several features since the tool’s release last November. 

In an unprecedented collaboration, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, along with floor covering supplier Interface are showing their collective commitment to embodied carbon reduction by joining the board of Building Transparency—a nonprofit formed recently to further develop a free-to-use digital tool for estimating embodied carbon in building construction, called the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator.

The International Living Future Institute’s drive to increase participation in its sustainable-building programs is gaining momentum.