Airtight and super-insulated, a passive house uses around 90% less energy. When the Canadian engineer Harold Orr and his colleagues began designing an ultra-efficient home in Saskatchewan in the late ...

Zero Energy Homes — a startup looking to show how modular construction combined with “net zero energy” principles can be priced for the affordable housing market — is almost finished building its ...

When it comes to energy efficiency, the people who design buildings and promote conservation have all sorts of insights and advice. But how do they apply that advice to their own homes? We asked ...

Colorado has officially adopted a new building code designed to make homes and offices more climate-friendly without further inflating the state's high cost of living. The Colorado Energy Office ...

According to research from NAHB, nearly half of home buyers are willing to invest between $1,000 and $10,000 in order to save $1,000 annually on their utility bills, and 37% are willing to spend ...

A new tribal community in Oregon is demonstrating that affordable homes can be energy efficient and withstand the impacts of climate change. You can build a house in ways that make it comfortable ...

As Maryland moves toward eliminating greenhouse gas emissions, home builders have begun pursuing a stringent federal energy efficiency designation that requires ...

New Hampshire is poised to update its building codes, the laws meant to keep homes and commercial buildings safe and comfortable. But in the bill approaching Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk, the code that ...

Professionals constructing energy-saving residential homes have the opportunity to maximize tax benefits on the 45L energy-efficient home credit, which offers high incentives to new homes and ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated several energy credits, including the clean vehicle credit, the energy-efficient home improvement credit, and the residential clean energy credit. Here’s when ...