In researching and writing about building products for our publication Environmental Building News over the past 20-plus years I’ve had an opportunity to cover some fascinating breakthrough products ...

As useful as refrigerators and air conditioners are, the gases they use as refrigerants can leak into the atmosphere and become major contributors to climate change. Now engineers at Harvard have ...

Harvard graduate student Faith Chen, of Wilmette, Ill., left, places a sample of cobalt-based hybrid material in a calorimeter, a device that measures temperature changes, as Jarad Mason, assistant ...

As we near the year’s halfway point, the HVACR industry is watching closely as the next steps in the global phasedown of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants appear on the horizon. Emerging ...