Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

The PAE building is the world's largest commercial Living Building and the only one engineered to survive a magnitude-7.5 quake with barely a scratch. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building ...

The idea of a Living Building, a high-performance building that produces its own power and cleans and reuses all of its water, is gaining momentum around the world. In an effort to oversee the global ...

This piece was first published on May 29, 2024 on ENR.com. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building team was to create a second-generation global model for commercial Living Buildings. The ...

Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe’s researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. By Anthony ...

Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe's researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. As science ...