Engineering
As energy and environmental crises rampage, sustainable solutions like ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems gain traction. GSHP systems use consistent geothermal energy below the earth's surface to provide heating and cooling ...
Jun 27, 2024
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Engineering
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the hands-on construction industry and contribute to long-term environmental sustainability in our built environment.
Jun 25, 2024
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Automotive
University of Oregon experts are bringing much-needed help to U.S. cities grappling with the testing or rollout of autonomous vehicles on their roads.
Jan 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
"Hard-to-decarbonize" (HtD) houses are responsible for over a quarter of all direct housing emissions—a major obstacle to achieving net zero—but are rarely identified or targeted for improvement.
Nov 2, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Tall, chimney-like towers rise from centuries-old adobe houses in Iran's desert city of Yazd, drawing in a pleasant breeze for residents of one of the hottest cities on earth.
Jul 21, 2023
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Business
A questionnaire sent to South Australian households has found that more than half don't understand what a "smart city" means, despite Adelaide being one of the most wired cities in Australia with very fast internet speeds ...
Jan 11, 2023
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Engineering
A Stanford University analysis could help policymakers across the U.S. spend billions of dollars in new federal infrastructure funding more wisely. The study, published March 31 in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, presents ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Food waste is a growing problem in Canada and many other parts of the world—and it is only expected to get worse in the coming years. The world population is expected to grow to 9.7 billion by 2050, alongside global food ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Wind can be used as a renewable energy source that is clean, uncontaminated, and inexhaustible. Such characteristics have helped wind energy technologies to a key contributor to sustainable development in society, which is ...
Oct 11, 2021
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Other
Promoting sustainable mobility is one of the biggest challenges for cities in the 21st century. The now published Transport in Human Scale Cities focuses on this challenge. The book is available for free download here.
Sep 29, 2021
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