Urgent: Consumers Need More Education on Resiliency
More frequent climate emergencies are threatening homes like never before. You can drive change and...
Jennifer Castenson
Jennifer Castenson currently serves as the vice president of COGNITION Smart Data and market analytics at Green Builder Media. She also serves as contributing writer to Forbes, reporting on innovation in the built environment.
A House That Doesn’t Perform Offers Zero Value
Homes with high performance can deliver better value every day and well into the future. What value...
The Bathroom Wellness Gap
The bathroom wellness gap: what homeowners say they want versus what they actually install....
Healthy Homes: An Ongoing Journey for Wellness
Products and materials drive health and wellness in new ways. Twenty years ago, the top trends in...
Carbon Offsets Are Tomorrow’s Homebuilding Imperative
Making carbon offsets work requires using the right tools and resources as well shifting design...
Offsite Construction and the Dawn of Sustainable Building
Offsite construction is becoming the only practical way to deliver better homes for people and the...
Heat Efficiency Pumps: Rewriting the Story
Data shows that a heat pump adds value to a home and offers homeowners more independence and...
Head-Spinning Evolution of Smart Home Tech Delivers Big, And the Future is Even More Promising
Smart home technology is evolving at a breakneck pace. The most cutting-edge technologies in homes...
A Growing Water Crisis: The History and Future of Tech, Policy and Smarter Homes
As water challenges grow, collaboration between builders, policymakers, and innovators is...
Tech Brings Us Closer to Lower Cost, Higher Performance Homes
From the design process to building operations, technological innovations are reimagining the...
ClimateTech Solutions, Sustainable Materials, and Circularity
Good materials make good design. Selecting good materials requires balancing cost, performance,...
The Transformation of Making, Storing, and Keeping Energy Reliable
The U.S. built the very first power grid in the world. Now, it’s old, and showing its age. With...
3 Megatrends Will Steer Future Home Technology
Data-driven climate control, energy management, and a shift from “wants” to “needs” will spur...
