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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science Joseph Allen explains why ventilation and filtration matter when it comes to mitigating the transmission of COVID-19 in the Wall Street video: “Ventilation Is Key to Battling Covid. Here’s Why.” See the full video … Read more
