Densely built, low-rise environments are more space and carbon efficient, while high-rise buildings have a drastically higher carbon impact. More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in ...

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 ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

If you look at Toronto's skyline, what you see is one condo building after another. Inside many of those high-rise structures are residents who have no idea how to react in the event of a fire. "I've ...