Year: 2021

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Amid a global climate crisis, Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) releases encouraging data on experimental lab HouseZero

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 20, 2021 – The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design has just published “Zero-carbon Balance: The Case of HouseZero,” the first full accounting of the structure’s embodied carbon and a detailed methodology behind calculating its zero-carbon balance in the peer-reviewed journal Building and Environment. In tandem, the CGBC has also released a summary of the lab’s full-year performance results. Prof. Ali Malkawi, […]

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CGBC Fall Lecture: Khee Poh Lam on “A ‘Well & Green’ Approach to A Sustainable and Resilient Educational Campus”

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On Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 10 am ET, Khee Poh Lam will present a lecture via Zoom. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton ([email protected]) to receive a Zoom invitation. This lecture is open to members of the Harvard community.     Khee Poh LAM, PhD, FRIBA, FIBPSA Provost’s Chair Professor of Architecture and Building Dean, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University Professor […]

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CGBC Fall Lecture: Michael Wetter on “Quo Vadis Building Simulation – New Generation Computational Tools that Integrate Design and Operation”

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On Thursday, November 18, 2021, at 1 pm ET, Michael Wetter will present a lunchtime lecture via Zoom. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton ([email protected]) to receive a Zoom invitation. This lecture is open to members of the Harvard community. Michael Wetter is a Staff Scientist at the Simulation Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His research includes integrating building performance simulation tools into the research process, as well […]

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CGBC Fall Lecture: Marilyne Andersen on “Radiant Indoors – Bridging Research and Practice”

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On Thursday, October 21, 2021, at 1:00 pm ET, Marilyne Andersen will present a lunchtime lecture via Zoom. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton ([email protected]) to receive a Zoom invitation. This lecture is open to members of the Harvard community. Marilyne Andersen is a Full Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Head of the Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID). Her research focuses on the […]

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Hyper Green High-Rises: Towards a Zero-Energy Skyscraper

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Unit section of wind CFD analysis image (above) by Chengzhang Zhang Hyper Green High-Rises: Towards a Zero-Energy Skyscraper is currently being exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) in Chicago, IL. This exhibit is free and located in the John and Kathleen Buck Atrium near the CAC box office. See more information on this exhibit on the CAC website here. Tall buildings are a fact of urban life. Influenced by […]

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CGBC Spring Lecture: Anne Beim on “Real Possibilities and Possible Realities: Absolute Sustainable Architecture, Materials and Tectonics”

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On Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 12 noon ET, Anne Beim will present a lunchtime lecture via Zoom. Please RSVP to Jeff Fitton ([email protected]) to receive a Zoom invitation. This lecture is open to members of the Harvard community. Anne Beim is a Professor of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture. She holds an MArch and a PhD in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy School of […]

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