CGBC Headquarters: HouseZero

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s building in Cambridge, MA, into an ambitious data-driven living-laboratory that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. A first-of-its kind test case, it also functions as a prototype for ultra-efficiency. Targeting the most rigorous efficiency standards ever achieved by a building retrofit, HouseZero has the following performance goals:

• Almost zero energy required for heating and cooling (No HVAC system)
• 100% natural ventilation
• 100% daylight autonomy (No daytime electric light)
• Zero carbon emissions, including embodied energy in materials

 

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HouseZero Concept

 

HouseZero Documentary Trailer