A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

A proposal to build the tallest building on the West Coast in downtown San Francisco, unveiled this month by Houston-based real-estate firm Hines, is a striking statement of faith in The City’s ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...