The National Institute of Building Sciences has partnered with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Building Commissioning Association, AABC Commissioning Group, and NEBB to advance and revise the Building…
“The product of careful continuity is love … Trust, intimacy, intense use, and time are what made these buildings work so well.”Stewart Brand, How Buildings…
I recently celebrated another birthday. When you reach a certain age in my family, the celebration lasts for an entire weekend—not just the day of…
retrofit magazine will host its inaugural retrofit conference, Oct. 12 at Chicago’s Navy Pier. The magazine’s staff and trusted advisors have solidified three educational themes…
You found it after a year of searching. It’s a church—more precisely a church building—now vacant, yet another casualty of urban flight. Built in 1860,…
Increasing the energy efficiency and reducing the energy consumption of existing buildings can have four times the environmental impact as compared to the installation of…