As the water evaporates, it creates a cooling effect, which can help cool down the buildings that the walls are attached to. But the beehive walls can do more than just cool the area around them.

"We've done installations at about 4,000 sites globally," Paeper said. "There are six million commercial buildings in the U.S. alone, and a very small fraction of them have installations like this." ...

Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the ...

New mechanism to cool buildings while saving energy. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 08 / 240811233255.htm. University of California - Los Angeles.

What if we could design buildings that could heat and cool themselves? What if we do this by repurposing existing technology? And what if we could seamlessly integrate this technology into a ...

Colorful films could help buildings, cars keep their cool. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 03 / 230327114920.htm ...

The Italian "starchitects" got into the shipping container building game in the 1990s, roughly a decade after these types of buildings first started appearing. (Shipping containers were invented ...

Sumerians: Keeping cool together The Sumerians lived about 6,000 years ago in a hot and dry climate that is now southern Iraq. Even then, they had techniques for managing the heat.

An Indian architect has come up with an astounding new way to cool buildings and homes that don't rely on electricity or ...