When energy costs go up, building managers turn off their pricey chillers and use the ice to keep things cool. A typical ...

Cities with cool city names represent many good things that inspire our lives. For most people around the world, different cities remind them of their favourite pastimes, from historical ...

Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano may not be putting up sleek, modern, talk-of-the-universe buildings in our county, but that’s okay. Westchester’s cool buildings are not about show, but about ethics. Here, ...

Researchers at UCLA and their colleagues have now found an affordable and scalable process to cool buildings in the summer and heat them in the winter. Led by Aaswath Raman, an associate professor ...

Researchers at Princeton and UCLA have developed a passive mechanism to cool buildings in the summer ... radiant heat flows between buildings and their environment to specific wavelengths ...

What if we could design buildings that could heat and cool themselves? What if we do this by repurposing ... There has been little research on their use in the building industry. Could we implement TE ...

Extreme heat is probably costing you money: In one recent survey, seven out of 10 Americans said their electricity ... can stay as cool as possible. Retrofitting existing buildings would be ...

The material could someday keep buildings, cars and other structures cool without requiring external power. The researchers will present their results at the spring meeting of the American Chemical ...

It’s a new biodegradable building material that mimics elephant skin and can keep buildings cool without relying ... inspiration from nature. Despite their size and lack of sweat glands ...

“There might be [some] inclusion of mechanical systems, but how can we cool buildings to begin with—before relying on the mechanical systems?” he adds. By retrofitting their shipping ...