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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.

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.