A scientist from Cambridge University has investigated the economic benefit of combining a basic energy-efficiency retrofit with the installation of rooftop PV and has found solar arrays help to ...
After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, significant steps were taken to upgrade building codes. Many of those put in place a couple of years after the quake. Nearly two decades later, the City of Los ...
Recently, the European Parliament approved draft regulation, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), requiring each member state to set minimum energy-performance standards for new ...
An earlier version of this page included retrofit information from the city of Los Angeles that contained numerous errors. This story has been updated and buildings from Los Angeles have been removed ...
As the construction industry faces mounting pressure to reduce its carbon footprint, retrofitting has emerged as a cornerstone of sustainable building practice. Unlike new construction, which ...
President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure proposal unveiled Wednesday includes a suite of measures to fight climate change, including billions to transition to electric vehicles (EVs), retrofit ...
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SYLMAR, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Twelve seconds of shaking that felt like a lifetime. The Sylmar earthquake woke Southern California up to the dangers of construction that could not stand up to the 6.6 ...