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Sustainable Building Futures: Leveraging Policy to Scale Technology and Foster Innovation for Global Climate Goals

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| This event will take place in-person at 2:30pm ET at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Road. Registration required (please email [email protected]). This talk examines the pivotal role of policy in advancing both established, cost-effective technologies and emerging innovations within the buildings sector to achieve global climate goals. From energy-efficient systems and nature-based solutions to artificial intelligence and smart grids, it explores how well-designed policy frameworks drive the adoption of proven solutions […]

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Project Air: Innovative Air Quality Technology Tested at HouseZero®

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According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air can be two to one hundred times more polluted than outdoor air (EPA, 2024). With the average person spending 90% of their time indoors (EPA, 2024), the health risks associated with these pollutants remain an ever-present concern, highlighting the urgent need for effective solutions to improve indoor air quality and healthy building monitoring. A significant barrier to addressing indoor air pollution […]

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Natures Urbaines Exhibition Presented at the Pavillion de L’Arsenal and in Published Book

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GSD Professor and CGBC Affiliated Faculty Member Antoine Picon produces CGBC research project Urban Natures: Technological and Social History What is the role of nature in urban development? Why are urban natures important? In the exhibition Urban Natures: A Technological and Social History, 1660-2030, which is on display at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris, France from April 24, 2024, to October 20, 2024, these questions are explored in detail. […]

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HouseZero Performance Data Showcased at a Hackathon Workshop Conducted by AI Institute in Dynamic Systems

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In an effort to showcase real-world examples of operating buildings using artificial intelligence (AI), the NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems used Harvard HouseZero performance data in their latest Hackathon. The Hackathon, which was part of a workshop conducted by the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, was led by Na Li, Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University […]

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CGBC Researchers Recognized with Best Paper Award and Willis H. Carrier Award at the 2024 ASHRAE Conference

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After the 2024 ASHRAE Annual Conference on June 22-26, 2024, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) researchers returned with multiple accolades, including a Best Paper Award. Elence Xinzhu Chen, instructor in Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, was recognized with the 2024 Willis H. Carrier Award. This award, established in memory of […]

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Mayuri Rajput

Urban Environments, Buildings and Climate Adaptation in Global South

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| This event will take place in-person at 12pm noon ET at HouseZero, 20 Sumner Road. This event is open to Harvard affiliates only. This presentation will cover Mayuri’s diverse range of research interests that include climate change adaptation in high thermal mass buildings of global South, high fidelity building simulations with a case study of HouseZero, decarbonization and urban neighborhoods, and a discussion on conflict of visual with thermal […]

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Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment

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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 of energy and ecology. In light of the increasing imperative to act on mitigating the causes and effects of climate change—and to devise new pathways for research and investigation—Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) and the Harvard Graduate […]

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Rachel Meltzer.

Center Spotlight: Rachel Meltzer

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For Rachel Meltzer, all roads lead back to the city. “When I’m away from the city, I miss the stimulation,” said Meltzer, Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and affiliated research faculty member at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC). Though she serves as a professor now, it was her previous role as Mortgage Officer and Project […]

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The Inequality of Heat

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Holly Samuelson, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities core research faculty and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, was consulted in a recent article evaluating heat dynamics in the city of Kolkata, India. The article describes Kolkata, a city in eastern India, and how differences within the city help predict who will get sick and even die from the heat, and who will be […]

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HouseZero: A Zero Energy Retrofit

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Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities retrofitted its headquarters in Cambridge into a data-driven living-laboratory that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. The Harvard Office for Technology Development (OTD) discusses the value of projects like HouseZero and how it brings together research teams across Harvard University to develop technologies. Watch the video.

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