In an interview with Harvard Magazine, the Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, Ali Malkawi, explains the Center’s scope and emphasizes its main initiatives. Malkawi also underlines the Center’s next “giant task,” which “involves rethinking established design and construction processes, revising specifications-based building codes to emphasize lifetime performance and outcome-oriented standards, and retraining inspectors—all across one of the world’s largest industries and the spectrum of human habitations.”