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Archinect: Maximum sustainability in Harvard GSD and Snøhetta’s “HouseZero”

Workroom in HouseZero.

CGBC’s HouseZero retrofit project is featured on Archinect. The author offers an overview of the project’s intent to provide a sustainable model for retrofitting existing residential buildings.  The piece goes on to describe CGBC’s goals to both achieve “100% natural ventilation, 100% daylight autonomy, almost zero energy required for heating and cooling, and zero carbon emissions, including embodied energy in materials” and provide a living lab for its researchers.

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