Year: 2017

On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 5:30pm, Les Norford will give a talk entitled “Buildings, Urban Environments and Electricity Grids: Opportunities for More Comfort and Less Carbon.” The event will be held at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities at One Bow Street, Suite 420, Cambridge, MA. Norford is currently the George Macomber Professor in Construction at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. He specializes in energy studies, controls, and ventilation, […]

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 6:00pm, Pratik Raval will give a talk entitled “Climate Design for Built Environments.” The event will be held at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities at One Bow Street, Suite 420, Cambridge, MA. Pratik helps lead Transsolar KlimaEngineering’s New York team. He provides direction for high-comfort low-environmental impact design on a diverse range of projects throughout the world and will discuss a sampling […]

On Thursday, November 9, 2017 from 8:30am-9:30pm, Vivian Loftness will be presenting a lecture entitled, “Research Supporting Biophilic Design.” The talk will be held in Gund Hall, Room 124.  This lecture is sponsored by the MDes Energy and Environment concentration and is open to all. Biophilia is the psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital.  Vivian Loftness, FAIA, LEED AP, is a University Professor and former Head […]

On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 from 1:30-2:45pm, Steve Kemp will be presenting a lecture entitled “Great Enclosures Enable Great HVAC Design: Towards Developing New Rule of Thumb Design Shorthand for Architects and Engineers.” The talk will take place in Gund Hall, Room 111. This lecture is sponsored by the MDes Energy and Environment concentration and is open to all. Great envelopes enable great HVAC systems. It has long been extolled that as […]

Andres Sevsuk, CGBC Faculty Advisor and Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will present at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis’ “Harvard Geography Colloquium.” This event hosts leading geospatial researchers who present cutting edge geographic research in a seminar format. The goal is to provide the Harvard community with a forum to highlight the unique perspectives, findings, and directions of contemporary geography. The event will take place […]

On October 5, 2017, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Harvard Business School Global Initiative will host “The Future of Cities” in honor of Harvard Worldwide Week, a University-wide series of events showcasing the breadth, depth, and diversity of Harvard’s global work. What will the city of the future look like? How will contemporary urbanization challenges establish the groundwork for the next generation of innovations? Who will spearhead the investments and […]

On Monday October 30, 2017, CGBC Founding Director Ali Malkawi will give a talk entitled “HouseZero: A first-of-its-kind, ultra-efficient retrofit” as a part of the Consortium for Energy Policy Research’s seminar series. Housed at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government in the Harvard Kennedy School, the Consortium for Energy Policy Research is dedicated to advancing Harvard’s energy policy research and fostering collaboration across the University in cooperation with the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The […]