Month: June 2017

NEREJ: Retrofitting existing buildings is new frontier of energy efficiency

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The New England Real Estate Journal has published a new column by CGBC Director Ali Malkawi about the importance of energy efficiency in buildings and the Center’s HouseZero retrofit project. Recognizing building energy consumption as a major contributor to climate change, Malkawi intends for HouseZero to “demonstrate how to transform one of the most challenging building types – an existing home – into a prototype that will model ultra-efficiency for other property […]

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Professor Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architectural Technology; Director of Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is seen at 20 Sumner Road, a house he is retrofitting to become an ultra-efficient building that will be the home of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.

Harvard Gazette Q&A: A house that produces energy

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The Harvard Gazette has published a new interview with Founding Director Ali Malkawi about CGBC’s retrofit of HouseZero, which strives “to produce more energy than it consumes — with zero carbon emissions and using daylighting and natural ventilation instead of an HVAC system — while serving as a learning center for students and a testing ground for emerging technologies.” In this wide-ranging interview, Professor Malkawi discusses the project in detail, highlighting […]

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CGBC team publishes on design of porous materials for heat exchange, decentralized ventilation

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CGBC researchers’ new article entitled “Breathing walls: The design of porous materials for heat exchange and decentralized ventilation” was accepted and will be published in a forthcoming issue of Energy and Buildings, an international academic journal that publishes articles about “explicit links to energy use in buildings” to “present new research results, and new proven practice aimed at reducing the energy needs of a building and improving indoor environment quality.” Authors Salmaan Craig […]

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Interior drawing of HouseZero first floor.

Architizer: Converting a Building Into an Energy-Efficient Predictive Piece of Architecture

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Architizer profiles CGBC’s project “to convert its headquarters, a 1924 stick-built house in Cambridge, into HouseZero, a sustainable system that is expected to set a precedent for the future of green reconstruction around the world.” Professor Malkawi, founding director of the CGBC, explains that his goal is to “show how this can be replicated almost anywhere” to enhance existing building stock. The article discusses the building’s future ability, once fully retrofitted, to predict and […]

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