The term ‘building science’ is used quite often now in sustainable building circles, but much of what we understand of it can be traced back to the work of Dr. Joe Lstiburek, founder of Building ...

UC Santa Cruz is moving forward with preliminary design for a new building that will accommodate the undergraduate teaching programs currently held in Thimann Laboratories, following approval from the ...

Energy efficiency in building performance encompasses strategies to minimise energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort and functionality. Central to this effort are improvements in the ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

It is difficult to measure, observing a completed building, the amount of work, resources and knowledge that were deposited there. All decisions made influence in some way the performance of the ...

Greg Brown, a UW botany professor and executive operations director of UW’s Science Initiative Building, gives legislators and others a tour of the state-of-the-art greenhouses in the new building.