The turn to energy-conscious design is inevitable. How we use energy affects the environment and eventually the world. (Author/MLF)

The planned corporate office building for Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corporation in Niagara Falls (New York) is designed to have an inner skin and an outer one four feet from it. Operable louvers will be located between the membranes. An energy analysis of the planned building is included. (Author/MLF)

Energy conservation high on the client's priority list led to a solar collector roof for the new science building at the Madeira School, located in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. (Author/MLF)

The new learning resources center takes advantage of the sun as a heat and light source when needed, but keeps it out when not needed. (Author/MLF)

An energy-efficient library in New Rochelle (New York) incorporates part of an old garage. The new library was developed closely with a master plan to become the central focus and cultural center intended to encourage revitalization of the decaying downtown. (Author/MLF)

Two projects, the Milford (Pennsylvania) Reservation Solar Conservation Center and Prototype Passive Solar Townhouses, are designed for solar energy--one as a learning center, the other as urban infill housing. (Author/MLF)

A review of the development of energy standards legislation in building design and the positions emerging in response to the proposed performance standards. (Author)

At the University of Southern California solar-access design research project, Barry Knowles and students have devised a solar envelope: the largest volumetric container over a land parcel that allows solar access to all adjacent neighbors within useful time constraints. (Author/MLF)

At the Shenandoah Solar Recreation Center in Georgia, solar energy is used not only for heating and cooling, but also for ice making. (Author/MLF)

In the first part of an interview, internationally famous engineer Fred Dubin talks of a full range of opportunities to conserve energy with passive design. (Author/MLF)

A leading passive solar heating expert advocates more extensive uses, outlines various familiar approaches, and evaluates many existing built examples. (Author/MLF)

In the current period of questioning of architectural values and directions, the implications of energy use on form must be confronted sooner or later. Efforts by various practitioners at combining art and technology are shown. (Author/MLF)

High intensity discharge lighting sources share the compactness and beam controllability of incandescent sources, but are far more efficient and longer-lived. They share the efficiency and long life of fluorescent sources, but are compact and optically controllable, and are available in higher wattages. (Author/MLF)

In part two of the interview, Fred Dubin discusses mechanical means of meeting the heating and air conditioning load. (Author/MLF)

The design and effectiveness of a number of government/industry active solar demonstration projects. (Author/MLF)