Harvard HouseZero
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities has retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA, into an ultra-efficient, healthy, positive energy structure.Harvard HouseZero
The design of HouseZero has been driven by radically ambitious performance targets from the outset, including nearly zero energy for heating and cooling, zero electric lighting during the day, operating with 100 percent natural ventilation, and producing zero carbon emissions.
Press
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February 26
New York Magazine: Is This Harvard Prototype the Greenest House in America? -
February 13
Forbes: This 94-Year-Old Home May Be The Key To Revolutionizing Green Tech -
December 7
Quartz: Harvard’s HouseZero sounds like a dream office, even without an HVAC system
Events
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Thurs, April 28 | Cambridge, MA
CGBC Spring Lecture: Hanif Kara on “Sustainable Practice Concerns” -
Wed, April 20 | Cambridge, MA
Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment -
Thurs, December 2 | Zoom
CGBC Fall Lecture: Khee Poh Lam on “A ‘Well & Green’ Approach to A Sustainable and Resilient Educational Campus”
Latest News
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April 27
Holly Samuelson gives keynote talk at Norman Foster Foundation workshop on energy -
February 17
Newly-published Research Shows Harvard’s Experimental Lab HouseZero Achieves High Energy Efficiency With Natural Ventilation and Thermally Active Building System -
November 20
Amid a Global Climate Crisis, Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) Releases Encouraging Data on Experimental Lab HouseZero
Research
Harvard HouseZero
Amid a Global Climate Crisis, Harvard’s CGBC Releases Encouraging Data on Experimental Lab HouseZero
The Harvard CGBC at the Graduate School of Design has just published “Zero-carbon Balance: The Case of HouseZero,” the first full accounting of the structure’s embodied carbon and a detailed methodology behind calculating its zero-carbon balance in the peer-reviewed journal Building and Environment. In tandem, the CGBC has also released a summary of the lab’s full-year performance results.
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