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.… Read more
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HouseZero: A Zero Energy Retrofit
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 … Read more
Core research faculty from the CGBC win Salata Institute grants for projects confronting climate change
The Salata Institute recently announced the first cohort of awardees from their Seed Grant Program, which serves to enable interdisciplinary research in climate and sustainability. CGBC core faculty researchers Holly Samuelson and Martin Bechthold, alongside CGBC researcher David Tish, were … Read more
Publication by CGBC researchers is recognized with “Best Paper Award of Energy and Buildings published in the period from 2018 to 2022”
“Optimal control of HVAC and window systems for natural ventilation through reinforcement learning,” authored by Yujiao Chen, Leslie Norford, and CGBC/GSD researchers Holly W. Samuelson and Ali Malkawi, was selected as one of the “Ten best research papers” between 2018-2022 … Read more
Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards
Holly Samuelson, Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities core research faculty and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is quoted in a recent article that responds to building emissions reduction mandates in Cambridge, … Read more
How Designers Can Help Keep Our Air Breathable
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 close windows and run air filters … Read more
Publication by CGBC researchers selected as one of “Best of 2022” in Advanced Materials Technologies
“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, was selected as one … Read more
Struggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
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
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