Novid Parsi

Today, about 120 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes. About three-quarters of these individuals live in low- and middle-income countries, straining host...

An unfortunate fact of stick-built home construction is that much of the wood ends up wasted. It’s estimated that around 10% to 15% of wood on new construction doesn’t get used...

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGC), the developer of the LEED rating system, has announced the winners of its annual LEED Homes Awards, which recognize some of the world’s...

A few years ago, Hai “Thomas” Lin was watching mud dauber wasps build nests on his newly purchased home. An assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Louisiana...

This month, the US Department of Energy named Healthy Communities a winner of the Housing Innovation Awards, which recognize the leading edge of zero energy ready homebuilders...

As NASA works toward human explorations of the Moon and Mars, any people staying off planet for long will need somewhere to live. They could build shelter the traditional way—...

“We hear directly from our customers just how emotional the moving process can be,” says Kerry Melcher, head of real estate at Opendoor, a company that buys and sells homes online...

North of Washington, D.C., and southwest of Baltimore, Montgomery County in Maryland represents both ends of the country’s economic divide. It’s one of the country’s wealthiest...