Press Releases

DOE establishes Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's $225 million for improved building codes

Announces the 2023 Design Challenge, encouraging students and professors to start planning their teams and courses.

DOE Seeks Public Input on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Program for Energy Upgrades to America’s 100,000 Public School Facilities

DOE Issues Request for Information on Best Practices for Designing Revolving Loan Funds Funded by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

DOE is awarding $31.8 million for seven project teams that will demonstrate how advanced construction techniques integrated with energy efficient technologies and practices can seed the next generation of building retrofit solutions.

Seven Awardees to Demonstrate Fast, Cheap, and Low Carbon Building Renovation and Construction Techniques in Low-Income Communities Across the U.S.

Housing Innovation Award winners show that green careers can bring us a more resilient future.

Fifty-five teams representing 38 universities are advancing as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2022 Design Challenge.

Affordable, appealing, convenient, low-carbon, and energy efficient—this is the Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Initiative’s vision for new and modernized existing buildings.

Policymakers convened in Glasgow at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and discussed numerous strategies to reduce the building sector’s influence on climate change, such as the worldwide adoption of building energy codes.