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 many states, including Massachusetts and New … Read more
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Bringing the CGBC to ASHRAE: Researchers from the Harvard CGBC present at the 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference, one wins top student (Doctoral level) paper
This past week, four researchers from the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) attended the 2023 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Winter Conference in Atlanta, GA.
The ASHRAE Winter Conference, which took place from … Read more
Fast Company: Harvard researchers designed a cheaper, more efficient air conditioner
In August, researchers from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Graduate School of Design, tested a new, exciting proprietary technology, coldSNAP, in HouseZero, the living lab
CGBC researchers recently received the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Building Energy & Environment (COBEE 2022)
New Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability to launch in fall of 2022
Harvard University has announced the creation of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, a groundbreaking new entity that will advance and catalyze research programs across all of Harvard’s Schools and enable comprehensive cross-University education in climate and the environment.… Read more
Research on reducing energy consumption and use of harmful refrigerants in AC receives Climate Change Solutions Fund Award
Ten teams from across the University will share $1.3 million to support research into reducing the risks of climate change, hastening the transition to renewable energy, diminishing the impact of existing fossil fuels on the climate, understanding, and preparing for … Read more
Holly Samuelson gives keynote talk at Norman Foster Foundation workshop on energy
On April 26, 2022, Associate Professor Holly Samuelson gave a keynote talk at the first edition of the Norman Foster Foundation Energy Public Debates in Madrid, Spain. During her talk (see recording below), she discusses how buildings are a cost-effective … Read more
CGBC researchers collaborate with SEAS on a project that unlocks hidden potential of porous metamaterials
When it comes to porous metamaterials —ubiquitous, sponge-like materials used in everything from sound absorption to self-cleaning glass — it’s all about how you slice it.
In a new paper from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and … Read more
Newly-published research shows Harvard’s experimental lab HouseZero achieves high energy efficiency with natural ventilation and thermally active building system
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 17, 2022 – The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), in its latest peer-reviewed paper in Energy and Buildings, demonstrates that Harvard’s HouseZero, which serves as both a laboratory and as the CGBC headquarters, … Read more
Amid a global climate crisis, Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) releases encouraging data on experimental lab HouseZero
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 … Read more