World’s biggest “passive house” office building https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-office https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/12/winthrop-center-in-boston-named-worlds-largest-passive-house/
DOE’s “Affordable Home Energy Shot” and other housing emissions reductions initiatives of the Biden administration https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/21/fossil-free-100-affordable-housing-can-mean-residents-have-no-utility-bills/
Cement and carbon black as a supercapacitor and a building material https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44716956/scientists-make-supercapacitor-out-of-cement/ hat tip Andrew Tobias
"Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems, according to a report by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology" https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/half-europes-family-homes-could-be-energy-self-sufficient-solar-and-storage-report Report (in German): https://www.kit.edu/kit/pi_2023_088_energiewende-energieautark-im-einfamilienhaus.php
Flood resistant homes from bamboo https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2023/flood-resistant-home-bamboo/ Use https://archive.ph/14gDa to get past the paywall Editorial Comment: this is not necessarily net zero energy building but could be and could also be adapted to the rest of the world, urban and rural
All electric sustainable skyscraper in Brooklyn https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/24/a-sustainable-skyscraper-grows-in-brooklyn-thanks-to-alloy/
Geos net zero energy community in Colorado https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/this-colorado-community-is-already-living-in-the-all-electric-future hat tip to Jennifer Hill Jennifer Hill also pointed me to Kaupuni Village in Hawaii https://g70.design/project/kaupuni-village/ https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/53401.pdf Living Zenith in Utah https://livingzenith.com/ Red Fox Crossing in Wisconsin https://www.probuilder.com/wisconsins-first-net-zero-community Hillside East in Vermont https://hillsidevt.com/energy-resiliency/
Building passively cooled schools in Burkina Faso https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat