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Seven Awardees to Demonstrate Fast, Cheap, and Low Carbon Building Renovation and Construction Techniques in Low-Income Communities Across the U.S.

DOE's Solar Energy Technologies Office and Building Technologies Office have jointly issued a request for information to gather input on technical and commercial challenges and opportunities for building-integrated photovoltaic system.

Housing Innovation Award winners show that green careers can bring us a more resilient future.

Fifty-five teams representing 38 universities are advancing as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2022 Design Challenge.

Affordable, appealing, convenient, low-carbon, and energy efficient—this is the Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative’s vision for new and modernized existing buildings.

Policymakers convened in Glasgow at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and discussed numerous strategies to reduce the building sector’s influence on climate change, such as the worldwide adoption of building energy codes.

Dr. Roderick Jackson of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory is being honored with a Black Engineer of the Year Award at the 36th annual BEYA STEM Conference, to be held February 17-19, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

DOE's Building Technologies Office awarded top honors to students from four universities during the annual JUMP into STEM final competition hosted virtually by Oak Ridge National Laboratory on January 27-28.

The document examines the many critical opportunities that exist to positively impact energy savings, greenhouse gas emissions, human well-being, and the economy through research and development of light-emitting diode (LED)-based SSL.

The Home Energy Scoring Tool – a web-based tool used to calculate an accurate and consistent estimate of a home’s energy use – won a 2022 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Award.