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Sophie Delhay, an architect and EPFL professor, is promoting an entirely new approach to designing and building homes.

What does a university of applied sciences in central Switzerland have to do with the world-famous football stadium of a world-famous club in Madrid?

EPFL scientist Sascha Nick has outlined a completely new scenario for what housing and neighborhoods might look like in Switzerland in the coming decades.

New postcode-searchable website illustrates the dangers of future UK heatwaves, where overnight temperatures will rarely dip below 25°C The blistering temperatures of future heatwaves in the UK have

HSLU study shows the potential of greenery and solar panels on building facades Innovations are needed in the construction sector to respond to the effects of global warming.

Cities need to become more sustainable and use their water resources more efficiently. Managing water in local small-scale cycles is one possible solution.

Shabnam Rahbar is studying 10 major projects to explore ecological landscaping practices in Quebec. There's eco-construction, eco-ethics, eco-neighbourhoods: ecology seems to be top of mind for planning professionals and researchers.

Sentiment was essentially unchanged this month, inching down a scant 1% from May, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.

Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.

In the 20th issue of GAM - Graz Architecture Magazine, we encounter Italian Autogrill service stations, the backyards of Neapolitan palazzi and K67 kiosks from the former Yugoslavia.

Zero heat waste: This is the goal of a dozen European companies and research institutions, including Empa, in the Horizon Europe project HEATWISE.

Living in subsidized housing is associated with significant reductions in housing affordability issues Like many countries, Canada is currently facing a housing affordability crisis.

The forest is more than just a collection of trees. This is impressively demonstrated by the www.waldnutzen.ch website developed in Central Switzerland.

One way to lighten the construction industry's heavy carbon footprint is to reuse existing materials - an approach being explored by numerous researchers.

In the fight against climate change, Switzerland has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 as part of the Paris Climate Agreement.

New Australian homes are being designed bigger and so require more energy for heating and cooling, wiping out potential gains in energy efficiency, according to new research co-authored by Associate Professor Emma Heffernan from the School of Architecture, Design and Planning. The increasing energy demand is inconsistent with global efforts to tackle climate change and suggests Australia's housing energy policy requires a radical rethink.

Urban planner and researcher Juan Torres shares his passion for visionary school design and more inclusive, sustainable communities.

CEA-Leti Develops Novel Architecture for Keyword-Spotting (KWS) In Always-On, Voice-Activated Edge-AI Systems -ISSCC 2024 Presentation Reports Accurate Speech Recognitio a t Power Consumption Below On

The MyCampus system is now live. Staff and students should use MyCampus to report maintenance issues and track progress in most UCL buildings - read on to find out more.

If you are an enrolled student and are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, support is available to help you find somewhere to live.

At ETH Zurich, there is a room where the sun shines at the touch of a button; one hour it's noon in the Sahara, the next it's January in Berlin. Researchers use it to test newly developed building systems, components and materials. How well does the new building material protect against the midday heat in Marrakesh? How must a new façade be printed so that it's not too cold in the Berlin winter and not too hot in the summer? researchers can now simulate this one-to-one in the Zero Carbon Building Systems Lab, a silvery grey building on the Hönggerberg hill.