Sustainability & Resilience

By adopting innovative approaches to urban site development, owners and contractors can minimize project costs.

Blocks made with recycled construction waste face challenges with labor—and industry inertia.

Environmentally friendly buildings still send a ton of waste to the landfill, but deconstruction and reclaiming building materials are on the rise.

The vice president of innovation at Meritage Homes chats about resetting the rules to reimagine the way we build homes.

The co-founder of IBACOS chats about innovations in comfort and the thermal enclosure, setting performance standards, and the evolving training needs of the construction workforce.

Whether we enact more-stringent building codes or focus on upgrading old homes, resilient design is a key strategy for builders adapting to severe weather.

By establishing expertise and partnerships, the building industry can find new avenues for growth in a world with burgeoning needs for solar power.

Architecture, construction, and engineering professionals must educate and collaborate with peers on sustainability issues.

What Yogi Berra might say to builders about choosing either to build affordably or to be resilient amid increasingly fierce weather events.