A joint Spanish and American research team found that people living near green spaces are on average 2.5 years biologically younger than those who do not.
Will homes need to adapt to better accommodate work? Will pavements widen so we can keep our distance? Will we no longer want to live so densely packed together, working in open-plan offices ?
Park Avenue Green in New York has 34 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system. The building used cogeneration and met the usual Passive House high levels of insulation and energy efficiency.
Tesla has released a giant new version of its latest home solar system – a 15.4 kW solar system suitable for 4,000+ sq ft homes. Tesla also recently launched the third version of its solar roof tiles and started to ramp-up installations.
Halio is a new glass that changes tint on demand called. It's faster than any other window, going from 99.5 percent black to clear in three minutes. This could be "a thermostat for the sun."
Gaobeidian Railway City in China has the largest Passive House project in the world, showing how to scale energy efficient building. This single project totals 330,000 square meters of certified Passive House buildings.
Amazon has made a deal with a big American home builder, to build "Alexa-enabled smart homes" where you can do a lot more than just adjust your temperature.
Hawaiian company, EnSync, is providing its smart home energy systems, which will utilize peer-to-peer energy exchange and smart water heaters to optimize energy efficiency and utilization of solar across the community.
The four-bedroom house was constructed using a patented 3D printing method called BatiPrint3D. The printer works by printing in layers from the floor upwards.
A new study Futurology: The new home in 2050 provides insights into some of the trends we are likely to see 30 years or more into the future.
The first 3D-printed concrete house in the world is to be built in Eindhoven, Netherlands this year. It will be a single-storey house and it's expected to be ready for occupation in the first half of 2019.
More than 30 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions emitted by cities are generated by buildings alone, according to National Geographic.
Amazon has made a deal with Lennar, a big American homebuilder, to build "Alexa-enabled smart homes".
The overall goal of the high-rise, dubbed W350, is to help realize an environmentally conscious city of wooden buildings that would transform Tokyo into a “forest.”
Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana will now support more smart home devices and integrate with IFTTT – a free web-based platform that helps users connect their apps and services together.
