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.
PRESS
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
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be...
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...
RESEARCH
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...