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The writers of an upcoming e-book aimed at demystifying the reuse of on-site nonpotable water have some advice for architects: Don’t go to building-permit officials with a confrontational attitude.

Proposed stringent emission-reduction targets through 2030 in the nation’s only interstate cap-and-trade program will continue the already well-established market shift toward renewable and efficient power-generation construction projects, industry analysts say.

Focus on saving lives in Texas delays full assessment of damage.

As sea levels rise—compounding coastal problems such as erosion, storm surge and tidal flooding—engineers are changing the way they work, using adaptive design and new technologies to prepare for an uncertain future

Owners, designers and contractors are divided over the market’s future and what set of standards will be used going forward

Chicago-based wind-generation developer Invenergy and GE Renewable Energy last month made public the construction start in Oklahoma of a 2,000-MW wind farm—set to be the largest in the U.S. and the second largest in the world.

In October 2015, the Aliso Canyon gas fields in Southern California sprang a leak that took the state’s largest gas-storage system out of service.

Heron Hall will be eligible for Living Building certification if it meets seven performance areas.

On June 22, while unveiling the world’s first ropeless and sideways-travel elevator system at its 246-m-tall test tower in Rottweil, Germany, elevator maker thyssenkrupp announced that OVG Real Estate will be the first to install the system.