Tag: Construction
Why homes often feel warmer than the thermostat suggests – and...
Jonathan Bean, University of Arizona
Picture two homes on the same street: one constructed in the 1950s and the...
Empty office spaces can be converted to residential buildings – but...
Jenny Baker, Iowa State University and Leah Mo, Iowa State University
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more companies have...
A case for retreat in the age of fire
Emily E. Schlickman, University of California, Davis; Brett Milligan, University of California, Davis, and Stephen M. Wheeler, University of California, Davis
Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead...
Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the...
Cuba’s post-revolution architecture offers a blueprint for how to build more...
M. Wesam Al Asali, Princeton University
Around the world, there’s a conjoined crisis of climate change and housing shortages...
Rural Alaska has a bridge problem as permafrost thaws and crossing...
Guangqing Chi, Penn State; Davin Holen, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Heather Randell, Penn State; Megan Mucioki, Penn State, and Rebecca Napolitano, Penn...
The US just set ambitious offshore wind power targets – what...
Erin Baker, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Matthew Lackner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The United States’ offshore wind industry...
Bendable concrete and other CO2-infused cement mixes could dramatically cut global...
Lucca Henrion, University of Michigan; Duo Zhang, University of Michigan; Victor C. Li, University of Michigan, and Volker Sick, University of Michigan
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
