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Net Zero Homes

The LEED Homes Awards’ Single-Family Winners

The U.S. Green Building Council’s single-family winners include a remote refuge in the Catskill Mountains, a net-zero lakeside home in Michigan, and a high-tech Pueblo-style residence in the New Mexico desert

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Award-Winning Healthy Homes With Clean Air and Energy

A perennial winner of the Housing Innovation Awards, Virginia-based Healthy Communities looks to the DOE’s new definition of zero emissions buildings to boost construction of more efficient and healthy homes

Bricks produced using mycelium, yard waste and wood chips as a part of the myco-architecture project. Similar materials could be used to build habitats on the Moon or Mars

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Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

To create off-planet housing, a NASA project grows fungi’s root-like structure so that it fills lightweight inflatables. The idea can work on Earth, too

High-performance building envelope home with prefabricated panelized construction

Design

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Launched by the nonprofit RMI, HomebuildersCAN helps single-family and low-rise multifamily builders address an often-overlooked problem in home construction

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The Passive House Network Publishes Guidance for 2024

The “Building Certifier Scope of Services” provides clarification on steps taken to certify a

Modern, white, cube, elegant, minimalist style passive house with large panoramic windows, grey shutters in maintained garden

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Concrete Wall Panels Help Build Noncombustible Homes

NileBuilt’s net-zero homes are built with concrete wall panels—creating fire, flood, and wind

Nellie Gail Exterior 1 with overlay - James Long

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Don’t Burn Straw—Build With It

Many farmers across the globe burn the straw that’s left over from their rice and wheat crops.

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How AI and Mushrooms Helped Turn an Empty Urban Lot into Affordable Housing

In Oakland, Calif., a design team leveraged innovative methods and materials to build 316 afforda

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Boston’s First Passive House-Certified Homes

RODE Architects encountered surprises and challenges while designing the three single-family home

Brucewood Homes three passive house-designed homes exterior

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PhiusCon 2023 Heads to Houston, Texas

Hosted by Phius, the conference brings together architecture, building, manufacturing, and energy

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Prefab, Modular Homebuilder Touts Energy and Cost Benefits

California-based Dvele delivers high-performance, healthy homes resilient to fire and extreme wea

Prefab, Modular home in California at sunset

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Mass Timber and Prefab, Stronger Together

For commercial and, increasingly, housing projects, Mercer Mass Timber supplies products that can

Innovators

Nominations Open for the 2024 Ivory Prize For Housing Affordability

The Ivory Prize seeks to elevate ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to the challenges fa

Disruption

D.R. Horton Buys 250,000 Grass-Made, Structural Panels from Plantd

The startup’s collaboration with D.R. Horton signifies a major industry shift in favor of clima

Rendering of startup Plantd's all-electric Factory of the Future

The LEED Homes Awards’ Single-Family Winners

Award-Winning Healthy Homes With Clean Air and Energy

Sustainable Housing: Growing Homes From Fungi

New Initiative Enables Builders to Reduce Embodied Carbon

10 Housing Markets Where Vacancy Rates Are the Highest

Pending Home Sales Are Back Up

These ZIP Codes Have the Highest Home Prices