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Assessing a Post COVID World: Energy and Emission Impacts of Telecommuting

Jan 1, 2021 -

Apr 30, 2022

Lockdown and social-distancing policy drove U.S. workers to switch to telecommuting during the pandemic of Covid-19 in 2020. Telecommuting has been widely perceived as a sustainable way of working tha...

Technological Innovations in an Industrially Designed and Manufactured Modular Housing Concept for Low Energy, Prefabricated, Low-Rise Hybrid-Monocoque, Volumetric Housing Units for Low Income

Sep 15, 2005 -

Aug 31, 2008

The objectives set out in the NSF's solicitation focus on five key interdisciplinary areas. Although it would be possible to concentrate on one specific area that demonstrates innovations that are onl...

UM Solar Decathlon/ Solar House Project

Sep 1, 2003 -

Apr 30, 2005

The Birth of MiSo* The Michigan Solar House (MiSo*) began in the summer of 2003 when it was one of nineteen colleges and universities selected by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energ...

CSS Factsheets

Jun 1, 2001 -

Development and maintenance of factsheets that illustrate current unsustainable patterns of providing various services to society in the United States (e.g., food, personal transportation, housing)...

Life Cycle Analysis of a Residential Home in Michigan

May 1, 1998 -

Sep 1, 1998

As concern over the environmental impacts of residential house construction grows, many researchers are beginning to use life cycle assessment as a means to quantify natural resources consumption, and...

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