The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday moved forward with its plan for creating building size standards for new apartments and condominiums. Rather than focus on the number of apartments or units, ...

Throughout the North American fire service, there are a wide range of approaches taken by firefighters in the manner in which they size up the physical structure during a fire and the amount of ...

The terms “net-zero” and “sustainable buildings” may evoke images of the shiny, new skyscrapers being built in cities all over the world to meet a range of new environmental regulations. From the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its ...

NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about 20,000 miles per hour, and projected to make a close pass by Earth. The object ...

Healthcare facilities, especially our nation's hospitals, have steadily become larger over the past couple of decades. The growth has occurred despite stabilization, and in some markets, a decline in ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has posted preliminary results from its periodic Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption survey. Data for the project were collected in 2012 and detailed ...