Buildings are responsible for nearly 60 percent of Israel’s electricity consumption and contribute 28 percent of the country’s total greenhouse gas emissions. These statistics, from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, highlight our...

How a region copes with economic challenges is as important to its long-term prosperity as how it grows in good times. Certain regions, such as the Bend-Redmond metropolitan statistical area in Oregon, have been able to rebound more quickly...

Californians face an unprecedented challenge finding affordable housing. Over the past 30 years, the precipitous rise in housing prices, development constraints, and stagnant growth in real income have cultivated a housing ecosystem that...

Since embarking on its era of economic growth and expansion in 1979, China has played an increasingly large role in the global economy and now ranks as the world’s second-largest economy. California—itself the world’s eighth-largest economy...

California’s dynamic and evolving economy depends on the careful upkeep and long-term investment in our state’s infrastructure. Physical infrastructure — our highways, waterways, energy grid and public facilities — are an indispensable...

The need among natural resource companies and governments to use capital more efficiently is creating opportunities for commercial shared-use infrastructure in emerging and frontier markets. Shared-use infrastructure is financed...

Infrastructure is the backbone of a nation’s economic prosperity and crucial for growth. The American Society for Civil Engineers graded America’s infrastructure a “D+” in 2013 and estimates at the time suggested the US would need to spend...

At the August 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the White House brought together government officials from 50 African countries. The historic gathering in Washington focused on trade and investment in Africa, drawing scores of investors and...