"It’s becoming so common." Realtor reveals what homebuyers should know before purchasing a home with solar panels: 'Great ...

Stanford’s Start.Home project tries to add some freshness to prefab housing by creating one “core” with all the needed equipment, around which you can build whatever house you want. Modular buildings ...

SAN ANTONIO — As inflation causes mortgages to rise, so does the cost of energy such as electricity. But what if a house was completely self-sustainable? That was the idea that motivated a group of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The house is cool, but most homes are these days, in the sweltering summer heat. Here, though, it should be hot. Or at least, the air-conditioning should be ...

Equipped with a 9kW building integrated solar power system that can operate independently in the event a storm shuts down the grid, SURE HOUSE also boasts super-tight insulation for optimum energy ...

How difficult is it to design a house fully powered by the sun? That’s what the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to find out. To do this, they have staged, once again, the Solar decathlon, a ...

Buildings that are called “green” or “environmentally sustainable” are designed to use energy as efficiently as possible. The designers’ goals are to improve the quality of human life and to minimize ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Michigan Solar House, a completely solar-powered, renewable energy dependent 459 square foot ...

What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare. German ...