MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers aim to design concrete mixtures that use AI to shrink environmental footprint and cost, while recycling byproducts and increasing performance.

Should the U.S. help low-income households afford water service, as it does with heating and groceries? Chile does. An economist explains how it works there and how it could work here.

New analysis could help identify optimal materials for the crisscrossing struts that bolster bridges, towers, and buildings.

Barns are practical buildings, designed to safeguard farm animals and equipment. Why are so many of them painted to stand out from the landscape?

A set of studies found people prefer incentives to disincentives, especially for individuals but also for businesses. They have views on clean energy and efficiency, too.

Embodied emissions in buildings could be a hidden setback for carbon reduction targets.

Embodied carbon - carbon produced during a building’s construction - urgently needs reducing, and reusing buildings could help.

One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.

New research has found that low-rise urban environments are more space and carbon efficient than high-rise buildings which have a drastically higher carbon impact.

With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT.