Year: 2019

October 24, 2019

CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Dru Crawley on “Going Digital – Modeling Infrastructure Resilience for Sustainable Urban Development”

On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 1:00pm, Dru Crawley will present a lunchtime lecture at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. The event will take place at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA in the lower level conference room. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Drury “Dru” Crawley is Bentley Fellow and Director, Building Performance Research focusing […]

September 13, 2019

L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui talks to Ali Malkawi about HouseZero and the future of simulation software and predictive tools

by joe meyrick

International magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui interviews Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Professor Ali Malkawi about the future of simulation software and predictive tools both in the design process and in the operation of buildings after construction is complete. Read the full Q&A here. This Q&A was published in issue 432 – Legacies and Innovations.

September 13, 2019

CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Gail Brager presents “The Value of Variability”

by joe meyrick

On Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 1:00pm, UC Berkeley Professor Gail Brager will present “The Value of Variability,” a lecture at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. The event will take place at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA in the lower level conference room. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected]. Gail Brager has a Ph.D. in Mechanical […]

July 30, 2019

BBC Worklife interviews Holly Samuelson on how indoor air quality boosts not only health, but cognitive abilities

by joe meyrick

Improving indoor air quality may boost cognitive abilities as well as health. So how should buildings be designed to make us more productive? The question posed to Holly Samuelson, Associated Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities. View the full story here.

July 10, 2019

PBS NewsHour: Architectural design for buildings that create more energy than they consume

by joe meyrick

Heating and cooling buildings consumes 40 percent of energy used across the world. As climate change continues to threaten the planet, rising temperatures may only increase the usage. Now, an architect in Boston is trying to change not just how much energy temperature regulation in buildings requires, but how much it produces. Cristina Quinn of WGBH in Boston reports. View the full coverage here.

June 14, 2019

Center for Green Buildings and Cites partners with Wyss Institute develop cold-SNAP

by joe meyrick

Center for Green Buildings and Cites partners with Wyss Institute to develop cold-SNAP: an alternative cooling process that uses substantially less energy than modern coolers. Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cites researchers collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and designers including members of the Wyss Institute’s Adaptive Material Technologies Platform and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) to develop an improved evaporative cooling (EC) system that can work […]

February 26, 2019

New York Magazine: Is This Harvard Prototype the Greenest House in America?

by joe meyrick

HouseZero was featured in New York Magazine in a piece written by Justin Davidson, who praises the CGBC’s apt headquarters and urgent mission. “Most other environmentally sensitive buildings rely on advanced machinery: hyperefficient air conditioners, motion-activated window shades, and so on,” he writes. “HouseZero dispenses with contraptions that refrigerate the house in summer or blast heat in winter. Maintaining a comfortable indoor temperature depends on an ingredient that most architecture […]

February 19, 2019

CGBC Spring Lecture Series: Mark Chambers

by joe meyrick

On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 1:00pm, Mark Chambers will present a lecture at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. The event will take place at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA in the lower level conference room. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Mark Chambers is an urbanist, an architect, and the Director of Sustainability for Mayor […]

February 19, 2019

CGBC Spring Lecture Series: Daniel Nocera, “Fuel and Food for All from Sunlight, Air and Water”

by joe meyrick

On Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 1:00pm, Daniel Nocera will present a lecture at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. The event will take place at 20 Sumner Road, Cambridge, MA in the lower level conference room. Talks are open to members of the Harvard community. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton: [email protected]. Daniel G. Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. […]

View of HouseZero exterior from the front.

February 13, 2019

Forbes: This 94-Year-Old Home May Be The Key To Revolutionizing Green Tech

by joe meyrick

Forbes featured a piece and an original video on Harvard HouseZero today, praising the structure as “one of the most important buildings in America.” The author notes HouseZero’s audacious goals—to drastically reduce the demand for energy and make green living possible for all. Professor Malkawi is also quoted within the piece, explaining that “this structure is the first attempt for us to be able to understand the complex behavior of […]