Karen Layng helped lay the new strategic foundation for the EMDC program. Today, she serves on its Industry Advisory Board and as an instructor educating future leaders in the built environment sector ...

This Collection suppports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 - Good Health and Wellbeing. In light of the importance of this research in promoting UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, this ...

We’re not living in a natural outcome of human needs and behavior. The built environment as we know it—buildings and the spaces between—does direct damage to our minds. Land use planning has had ...

Circularity, the practice of recirculating used materials through harvesting, recertifying, and testing, could make construction projects be delivered at a lower cost than by using virgin materials ...

Built Environment Leaders to Discuss Net-Zero Strategies The latest Northwestern Built Environment Exchange (BuiltX), hosted by EMDC in partnership with Illinois Green Alliance, will highlight ...

For years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been discussed as a digital phenomenon: software, algorithms, productivity tools. But its most significant impact may occur not on screens, but in physical ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. As the demand for built environment grows, the inevitable ...

Holcim has launched the Holcim Sustainable Construction Academy, an open-access online training program on circular, energy-efficient, low-carbon and regenerative design concepts. Developed by Holcim ...

In architecture circles, there’s a commonly used phrase: The built environment. That sounds straightforward enough on the surface, but it also suggests a concept that’s far more opaque and complicated ...

The nation’s 16-year-olds are sitting their GCSE exams in school halls up and down the country. The choice of GCSE subjects has expanded considerably in recent years, with around 60 courses available ...

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe famously quipped that “God is in the details,” and though he was referring to a job well done, we are inclined to co-opt his sentiment for another purpose: There is ...