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CGBC Faculty Startup “Trellis Air” Featured in The Harvard Gazette
Jonathan Grinham, assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and core faculty member at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities, was recently featured in The Harvard Gazette for his work on Trellis Air: a Harvard startup that aims to reduce the energy demands of air conditioners by using a novel…
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The Inequality of Heat
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…
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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 and how it brings together research teams across Harvard University to develop technologies. Watch the…
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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, MA. Cambridge’s City Council set a measure that calls for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions among…
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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 helped mitigate the acute effects of the short-term crisis, but the event also drew attention…
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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 York, are enacting new rules requiring developers and property owners to change or reduce the type…
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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 that is also headquarters for the CGBC. The testing of the novel evaporative cooling tecnology was…
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Dwell features Ali Malkawi as one of eight climate-conscious design visionaries
As working from home becomes the new normal for many around the world, Dwell talks to Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Ali Malkawi about the future of energy-efficient living. Malkawi is featured among eight visionaries and pioneering designers who are pushing the limits in ecologically attuned design and making…
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L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui talks to Ali Malkawi about HouseZero and the future of simulation software and predictive tools
International magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui interviews Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Professor Ali Malkawi about the future of simulation software and predictive tools both in the design process and in the operation of buildings after construction is complete. Read the full Q&A here. This Q&A was published in issue…
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BBC Worklife interviews Holly Samuelson on how indoor air quality boosts not only health, but cognitive abilities
Improving indoor air quality may boost cognitive abilities as well as health. So how should buildings be designed to make us more productive? The question posed to Holly Samuelson, Associated Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Green Buildings and Cities. View the…