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.
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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...
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Paving the Way for Circular Architecture
November 2, 2023

2023 MIT Global Change Outlook: Charting the Earth’s Future for Energy...
October 12, 2023
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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...

Center Spotlight: Xiaoshi Wang
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- Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities spotlights sampling of faculty findings during Climate Action Week: https://t.co/omveXkma4P 11:42:23 AM May 22, 2023
- Inside HouseZero™, a team of researchers are conducting a number of experiments related to improved building design… https://t.co/J2aF4d0E1O 11:11:09 AM May 17, 2023
- Introducing...STORIES! Learn more about members of our Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) team an… https://t.co/VsO47wxoBa 01:36:30 PM May 05, 2023
- Great to have Prof Hanif Kara at the Center to present "Sustainable Practice Concerns" and share firsthand experien… https://t.co/sm07phWLKV 02:37:28 PM April 28, 2022
- "Buildings are one of the most cost-effective opportunities to abate carbon." Assoc Prof Holly Samuelson gives a ke… https://t.co/pt4zWOlHzR 01:54:21 PM April 27, 2022
- PI Asst Prof Pablo Pérez-Ramos presents research that analyzed agricultural landscapes in arid regions to produce a… https://t.co/jXp9M01Vn6 05:10:03 PM April 20, 2022
- PI Asst Prof Carole Voulgaris shares research on evaluation of existing applications & methods for estimating site-… https://t.co/5lonhVkDVI 04:57:40 PM April 20, 2022