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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Thursday, April 22 Zoom
CGBC Spring Lecture: Anne Beim on “Real Possibilities and Possible Realities: Absolute Sustainable Architecture, Materials and Tectonics” -
Thursday, April 1 Zoom
CGBC Spring Lecture: Darren Robinson on “Multiscale Simulation of Buildings as Complex Sociotechnical Systems” -
Thursday, December 3 Zoom
CGBC Fall Lecture: John Peponis on “The Spatial Syntax of Cities: Are Social and Environmental Choices Converging?”
Latest News
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November 24
The Wall Street Journal features Joseph Allen on why ventilation and filtration matter in indoor spaces -
July 30
The Wall Street Journal features Holly Samuelson on the future of office design -
June 15
Vogue talks to Holly Samuelson about what your office may look like after lockdown
Research
Harvard HouseZero
CGBC Headquarters: HouseZero
20 Sumner Road | Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s building in Cambridge, MA, into an ambitious data-driven living-laboratory that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. A first-of-its kind test case, it also functions as a prototype for ultra-efficiency.