A survey of 188 home building executives by John Burns Real Estate Consulting finds that many builders are reluctant to sell homes to veterans.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that more than 10,000 homes have been build to meet the energy-efficiency specifications of the voluntary Builders Challenge initiative.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) now recognizes open-cell spray foam as an accepted insulation in the CEC’s 2008 Building Energy Efficiency Standards.

A divided Board of Public Works gave wrecking crews the green light to demolish the 55-year-old home of the president of the University of Maryland to make way for a new $7.2 million building that will serve as a residence and a location for large events.

A town being built in New Mexico is purposely being constructed as a modern-day ghost town for energy-efficiency research.

The Wall Street Journal’s blog offered five issues in 2012 that will be deciding factors in the housing market. 

Homeowners in South Florida will now have an easier way to resolve their building code violations with a new service, FixMyCodeViolation.com.

This month, Texas adopts a statewide building code that should cut the energy consumption of new single-family homes by more than 15%, according to the Energy Systems Laboratory at the Texas A&M University System.