Smoke from wildfires raging in Canada blanketed the Northeastern United States this month, turning the skies an eerie orange. Responding to record-setting levels of pollution, officials around the region declared health emergencies. Advice to closeRead More
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“3D Printing of Hierarchical Porous Ceramics for Thermal Insulation and Evaporative Cooling,” authored by Alessandro Dutto, Michele Zanini, Etienne Jeoffroy, Elena Tervoort, André Studart, and CGBC researchers Saurabh Mhatre, Zachery B. Seibold, Martin Bechthold, wasRead More
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When Elence Xinzhu Chen was young, she wanted to be an entrepreneur. While applying for her undergraduate degree, Chen hoped to go to business school. Her family advised her to pursue engineering or science. SheRead More
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The push to prepare American cities and towns for greater climate resilience has become more urgent in recent years as scientific evidence of warming mounts and extreme weather events grow more common. Officials in manyRead More
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Though there are many people that contribute to HouseZero™, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) net-zero carbon emissions building and living laboratory, Pete Howard is the building’s primary caretaker. As Building Automation,Read More
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This talk will take place at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Rd at 12pm noon. Registration is required (please email [email protected]). The Solar Gate is an adaptive shading system that assists in the indoor climate regulation ofRead More
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For Ellie Jungmin Han, the most interesting research findings lie at the intersection between architectural design, building physics, and computer and data science. As a fellow at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and CitiesRead More
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Researchers at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) share insights from their work Inside the walls of CGBC headquarters HouseZero™, a team of researchers are conducting a number of experiments related toRead More
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Among the Harvard community – or what he calls Harvard’s research “ecosystem” – Saurabh Mhatre is an accomplished collaborator, translating his architectural research into applications in design, engineering, and medicine. Mhatre, Senior Research Associate atRead More
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Register for the event. With mounting evidence of the impact of human activity on the global climate, the built environment is increasingly understood as a critical site for applied and conceptual research in questions ofRead More
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