Around half of new home buyers and tenants under 40 years of age in Britain actively seek eco-aware homes, showing that the public is now more conscious of sustainability than ever before.

Online shopping was meant to save on carbon emissions. Fewer cars driving to energy-sucking stores that send copious amounts of material to landfill with every display change. But with a…

After a little over a year the Nightingale Village in Melbourne’s Brunswick is ready to commence.

If you ask most people what the difference is between low carbon and low energy buildings they generally give you a blank stare.

The 47-level Collins Arch mixed use project on Melbourne’s Collins Street will be kitted out with high efficiency airconditioning and other low-impact technologies thanks to a $100 million investment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

FROM THE TREASURE CHEST (2013) Comfort is a complex issue and very personal. I see that every day. Very highly paid workers surround me and you can be rest assured that, being a thermostat, I am blamed every day by a select few for not looking after their comfort needs.

A consultancy focused on environmental product disclosure is searching for new staff in Sydney and there’s a good reason for that.

There have been more brickbats than accolades in response to the band aid solutions and ministerial tag team that has followed last week’s Opal Tower press conference.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has created an important new web portal to make innovative technical and market information available to energy and construction professionals.

The true driver of housing prices is cheap money, promiscuously lent by banks under the irresponsible oversight of regulators egged on by lazy governments keen to buy votes.

Last week’s Spinifex calling for Passive House to become a new standard for the National Construction Code certainly struck a nerve.

Investa claims it is the first property company in Australian to achieve an approved real estate Science Based Target.

Some UK builders and solar companies are buddying up to slash homeowners’ energy bills even without the government subsidies that are due to end next month.

With the planet warming, every effort must be made to keep cool without increasing climate change.

The recent Building Ministers Forum in Hobart was noteworthy for its consistency in for declaring more red tape, more checkers checking the checkers, and avoiding any policies that would make a genuine difference.