Our NPV analysis shows how much an investment in zero energy buildings is worth in today’s dollars over 10 years and 25 years. We assumed 10 years to be a reasonable period over which certain types of ...

Site layout, building massing, envelope design, and systems design were driven by the zero-energy goal of maximizing the on-site solar array while optimizing the building’s energy performance. Using ...

ZeroEnergy Design is an architecture firm creating high performance homes and buildings, while also offering energy consulting and HVAC design for other professionals through the firm's mechanical ...

Buildings that produce more energy than they use may be a necessity in the future. A new design competition asked architects to design these net-zero buildings for a site in California, with ...

The Zero Energy Design Designation Program supports the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of a net-zero emissions economy by 2050. With buildings being one of the main contributors to carbon ...

The Future of Zero Energy Communities. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and other project partners are developing an open source software development ...

How’s this for energy efficient: A three-bedroom house with an HVAC system so effective, it would only cost $282 a year to heat and $38 to cool. That was the winning entry in the U.S. Department of ...

The project addresses two major challenges: optimizing building operations to maximize programming impacts and providing a high-performance design to reach a zero-energy goal. More than simply a new ...

Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation in Hamilton, Ontario, is Canada’s largest net-zero energy institutional facility and the first in the country to be awarded Zero ...

Energy X, a Seoul-based construction platform for zero-energy buildings, secured a $20.3 million Series B at a valuation of $120 million.