As cities grow at an ever-faster pace, concerns about global warming rise and fossil fuels become increasingly scarce, cities will have to adopt more sustainable energy solutions.

Research news - The Guggenheim Museum by star architect Frank Gehry led to an economic boom in the Spanish city of Bilbao. This "Bilbao Effect" is appealing to many urban planners and politicians who look to better position their cities in economic and social terms by building exceptional architectural projects.

In the year 2100, temperatures at EPFL are expected to be similar to those currently experienced in Perugia, in central Italy.

Embodied carbon in the construction industry is a major factor of climate change, but it is rarely measured accurately.

Researchers at EPFL have developed a system that can be installed in a building to collect data on people's energy usage.

Research news - Active components on buildings such as blinds whose design was copied from naturally occurring solutions - that is the subject of the research conducted by a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Freiburg, and the University of Stuttgart.