Month: April 2014

April 24, 2014

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Hosts Sustainable Design Challenge

The Department of Energy hosts twenty-eight teams from colleges in the United States and Canada at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado from April 26-28. Teams presented their zero energy home designs to panels of industry experts as part of a home design competition. Judges evaluated teams on their design and construction packages, project plans, and energy-saving strategies. The event is part of the Energy Department’s Building American Program, […]

April 17, 2014

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Hosts Zero House Workshop Series with Industry Experts

by joe meyrick

The Center hosts a series of discussions with experts at the GSD and across Harvard to aggregate input as we set goals and create a formal design plan for a zero energy retrofit of our headquarters in Cambridge, MA. The Center will conduct sessions in Landscape, Economics, Design, Information Technology, Materials, Life Cycle Design, and Facilities.

April 1, 2014

GSD Student Teams Win First-Place Honors at 2013-14 NESEA Net-Zero Energy Design Competition

by joe meyrick

Two teams of GSD students won first-place awards at the 2013-14 NESEA Net-Zero Energy Design Competition. The competition supported low-energy, high aesthetic architectural designs supported by energy simulations analysis for a variety of building types. Kanika Arora (MDesS ’15), Abhinay Sharma (MDesS ’14), Baha Sadreddin (MDesS ’15) and Rohit Goyal (GSAS) led by Holly Samuelson, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD, won for residential new construction. Johannes Staudt (MDesS ’14), Saurabh […]