-
Mixed-Use Development in Town Centers
Integrated mixed-use buildings provide communities with a solution for dealing with monofunctional urban landscapes, complex zoning regulations and increased mobility needs by offering multiple residential, retail, office, community and…
-
What is a Green Building?
Green buildings are designed and constructed to conserve precious natural resources, reduce energy use, and enhance indoor environmental quality. This overview offers beginner answers such as “What is a…
-
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) encourages compact urban development by clustering housing, services and jobs near public transit stations. This strategy has proven highly successful in cities like Copenhagen and Singapore…
-
The Importance of Sustainable Urban Infrastructure
Urban infrastructure refers to an interdependent system of engineered facilities and utilities designed to promote economic growth, environmental sustainability and quality of life in a city or urban region….
-
Why Energy Efficiency Is Important
Energy efficiency goes beyond cutting your electric bill costs; it also demonstrates to both customers and employees that your company cares for the environment. Energy efficiency improvements have helped…
-
What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development refers to creating an equitable society while safeguarding the environment, such as by reducing emissions, pollutant reduction and protecting biodiversity. Sustainability requires efforts from all duty-bearers. It…
-
What Are Smart Grids and How Can They Benefit Us?
Smart grids are electricity networks that employ digital technologies to monitor and control energy flows efficiently, sustainably and flexibly – providing greater efficiencies, sustainability and flexibility than conventional networks…
-
Smart Cities
Imagine a city in which every drop of water is carefully tracked, communication flows freely through intelligent infrastructure, and sustainability is not simply an ideal but an actuality –…
-
Urban Mobility and the Environment
Urban mobility is integral to both social and economic wellbeing of cities; yet it also represents one of the key sources of environmental impacts. The widespread adoption of automobiles…
-
5 Critical Roles for Energy Storage
Energy storage is an integral component of increasing renewable energy sources and supporting net-zero goals. It serves multiple important roles, including reducing end user demand charges associated with utility…