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  • Innovative PV System Installation Method for Limited Area Applications
    Article - 28 Jan 2022
    Recently, a team of researchers, writing in the journal Buildings, has considered daily global and diffuse solar radiation evaluated on a horizontal surface to establish the most efficient angles of...
  • Implementing Eco Homes
    Article - 4 Jan 2022
    An eco-house is a house that is designed in such a way that it is environmentally friendly. It is built with consideration of technology and materials that reduce both its carbon footprint and energy...
  • Alternative Technologies to Reduce Energy Costs in the Home
    Article - 10 Dec 2021
    Reducing the consumption of energy in a home is not only an environmentally friendly decision but also allows one to save on energy costs each month.
  • Green Building: Where Are We Now?
    Article - 8 Dec 2021
    The construction industry is responsible for 11% of all global carbon emissions, and 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to the built environment as a whole. More sustainable...
  • PlusPool: What Engineering Feats Will Be Seen?
    Article - 4 Nov 2021
    PlusPool is an innovative feat of engineering that aims to clean up the East River while providing a spot for New Yorkers to swim.
  • Improving Glazing in Buildings with Thin-Films
    Article - 29 Jan 2020
    In an energy-intensive world where reducing energy demand is desirable, films and coatings could play a huge role.
  • Thin Films in Smart Windows
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Smart and connected technologies are beginning to infiltrate all areas of our life. Smart windows are powered by UV light and are coated by thin films.
  • Combining Photovoltaics and Architecture
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Architects are facing the fact that solar energy is here to stay and they are having to adopt new designs that incorporate this renewable energy to meet the demand for using solar energy to power...
  • Integrating Photovoltaics in Construction
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Clean energy technologies have been getting a lot of attention as a result of concerns about energy independence and the environmental impacts of fossil fuels.
  • Integration of Photovoltaics in Buildings
    Article - 14 Nov 2019
    Photovoltaic (PV) technology converts solar energy (photons) into usable electric power (electrons), usually through chemical processes in PV cells.
Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

Reducing Embodied Carbon Through Design

With an increase in the pressure to decarbonize the built environment and build more carbon-neutral buildings, the reduction of embodied carbon has become of great importance.

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

Calcium Carbonate Concrete: Building on Recycling

AZoBuild talks to Professors Noguchi and Maruyama about their research and development of Calcium Carbonate Concrete (CCC), a new material that has the potential to cause a sustainable revolution in the construction industry.