by Helen Sanders
In the United States, we have a façade-retrofit problem—or opportunity—depending on how you look at it. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, about 2.4 million commercial buildings, approximately 40% of the commercial building stock,
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 has been ramping up funding for several programs to decarbonize building materials and transform the market. The biggest news in February 2024 was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The sale of heat pumps surpassed the sale of gas furnaces for the first time last year, according to data from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). This is a significant milestone for the
This week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its report on global energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Globally the news is not the best: CO2 emissions grew (1.4 percent) for the first time