To meet the government’s target of being carbon neutral by 2050, we must recycle, reuse and responsibly adapt our existing historic building...

By mid-January of 2015 it seemed like Mother Nature had forgotten to deliver winter to those of us in the Northeast.  Over the next four we...

In my capacity as an historic preservation contractor and consultant, I am often afforded the opportunity to become involved in exciting an...

Do you care about historic buildings? Proposed changes to the International Energy Conservation Code threaten to cause irreparable ha...

When new words and terminology enter our vernacular, they often take on a connotation larger and broader than they deserve.   Today, “gree...

The creation of local historic districts, and the subsequent enforcement of historic preservation laws, creates a special set of challenge...

When I recently attended the Massachusetts Historic Preservation Conference the first session I signed up for sounded enticing:   Current ...

Long before the broad—often numbingly boring—interstates were built, Route One was the main thoroughfare from Florida to Maine.   And alon...