It's hard to believe that 50 percent of energy consumption in buildings and facilities is determined by occupants.
Even with super-advanced building automation systems (BAS), forward-thinking design teams, advanced planning of LEED certifications, resourcefulness and...
Against a backdrop of deep economic crisis, budget cuts and continuous population growth, cities face a major challenge: how to guarantee service delivery with fewer resources and growing demand.
The...
With the 2012 Olympic Games looming ever closer, the city of London has ambitions of hosting the greenest games in Olympic history. It is a difficult task to succeed, but a number of green building...
Havana is a different kind of smart city. This smart city does not define itself by being a digital or an intelligent city, yet it is a city that has proved to be leading the world in terms of sustainable...
New York, London, Madrid, Paris: all the great cities have, at their centre, a large parcel of communal green space, parks that function as both a recreational hub and a much-needed oasis in a sea of...
Imagine living in a city that runs itself. It can manage traffic flow, control water pressure, control the temperature of a room; it thinks for itself and is designed to constantly optimise energy,...
In the smart city of the future, owning your car will be so passé. That’s the message coming out of Paris this week, where the Autolib threatens to kickstart a low-carbon transport revolution.
As...
It’s a common sight in cities and towns across much of the developed world: lines of traffic clogging up residential communities. But what is the social effect of the automobile on our neighbourhoods...
An urban experiment in the New Mexico desert looks set to test the definition of ‘city-living’ to the maximum. But can a metropolis with no residents really tell us much about developing...
We're starting to see QR codes everywhere, but now it seems we can expect to see them on buildings more frequently, and not just in the form of billboards.
The N Building is probably one of...
