Driving sustainability through design
Through research, innovation, and collaboration, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is promoting holistic change within the built environment. Discover our Center.
Using design-centric strategy to develop processes, systems, and products
Our researchers and faculty focus on four interrelated areas of research: design and operation, high-performance materials and construction, technology adoption and diffusion, and sustainable planning. Learn about our research.
Creating and improving sustainable, high-performance buildings and cities
HouseZero, the Center’s headquarters, is a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA that was retrofitted into an ultra-efficiency, healthy, positive energy structure and lab with ambitious performance targets. Explore HouseZero.
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Holly Samuelson, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities core research faculty...
HouseZero: A Zero Energy Retrofit
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities...
EVENTS
CGBC researchers share findings to support data analytics of ultra-low energy building...
Natures Urbaines Exhibition Presented at the Pavillion de L’Arsenal and in Published Book...
In an effort to showcase real-world examples of operating buildings using artificial ...
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STORIES
Center Spotlight: Rachel Meltzer
For Rachel Meltzer, all roads lead back to the city.
Research Spotlight: Older People, Places, and Climate Change
While the climate is changing, the global population is...
Center Spotlight: Holly Samuelson
How do we protect vulnerable populations from the...