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- “Confronting the Climate Crisis: Critical Roles for the U.S. and China” with Al Gore
- “Sustainability in Scandinavia” video now available
- “Sustainability in Scandinavia” international book launch events hosted in Oslo & Copenhagen
- 2016 GSD Doctor of Design Conference: #decoding
- 2018 GSD DDes Conference: [RE]FORM: New Investigations in Urban Form
- 2023 MIT Global Change Outlook: Charting the Earth’s Future for Energy, Managed Resources, Climate, and Policy Prospects
- Ali Malkawi gives lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Simulation’ at Harvard GSD talk series
- Ali Malkawi honored at World Science Forum 2017 for contributions to architecture
- Amid a global climate crisis, Harvard’s Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) releases encouraging data on experimental lab HouseZero
- Apply Now! Post Doctoral Fellow: Computational Support for Energy Conscious Design & Operation
- Archinect: Maximum sustainability in Harvard GSD and Snøhetta’s “HouseZero”
- Architect Magazine: Education and the Performance Imperative
- Architect’s Newspaper: Greened House
- Architect’s Newspaper: Turning this old house at Harvard into ultra energy-efficient building
- Architectural Record: Harvard Reveals Its Ultra-Energy-Efficient CGBC
- Architectural Record: Newsmaker interview with Founding Director Ali Malkawi
- ArchitectureBoston: HouseZero
- Architizer: Converting a Building Into an Energy-Efficient Predictive Piece of Architecture
- Arts Seminar “cityinflux”
- ArtScience @ Le Lab Lecture Series: “Designing Biology”
- Ash Center Discussion: Health and Urban Resilience
- Ash Center Discussion: Will Renewables Renew Democracy?
- BBC Worklife interviews Holly Samuelson on how indoor air quality boosts not only health, but cognitive abilities
- Bin Cao publishes article about personal control and thermal comfort
- Bloomberg: Google Said to Plan Energy Push
- Boston Globe: Energy & What Americans Want
- Bringing the CGBC to ASHRAE: Researchers from the Harvard CGBC present at the 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference, one wins top student (Doctoral level) paper
- Bringing the Global Community to the Table: Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference
- Bud Ris delivers Climate Week lecture: “Climate Ready Boston: Planning for Challenges Ahead”
- Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards
- Center for Green Buildings and Cites partners with Wyss Institute develop cold-SNAP
- Center Spotlight: Elence Xinzhu Chen
- Center Spotlight: Ellie Jungmin Han
- Center Spotlight: Holly Samuelson
- Center Spotlight: Pete Howard
- Center Spotlight: Rachel Meltzer
- Center Spotlight: Saurabh Mhatre
- Center Spotlight: Xiaoshi Wang
- CGBC affiliate Bechthold publishes book: Ceramic Materials Systems in Architecture and Interior Design
- CGBC affiliate Samuelson receives grant from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund
- CGBC announces first-of-its-kind HouseZero project, extreme retrofit of its headquarters
- CGBC celebrates HouseZero Commissioning Ceremony, hosts HouseZero Typology Symposium
- CGBC Faculty Startup “Trellis Air” Featured in The Harvard Gazette
- CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Dietmar Eberle, “200 100 50 20 10”
- CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Dru Crawley on “Going Digital – Modeling Infrastructure Resilience for Sustainable Urban Development”
- CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Gail Brager presents “The Value of Variability”
- CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Gail Brager, “The Value of Variability”
- CGBC Fall Lecture Series: Hiroshi Ishii, “TRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical Atoms”
- CGBC Fall Lecture: John Gero presents “Cognitive Design Computing: Including the Human Dimension”
- CGBC Fall Lecture: John Peponis on “The Spatial Syntax of Cities: Are Social and Environmental Choices Converging?”
- CGBC Fall Lecture: Khee Poh Lam on “A ‘Well & Green’ Approach to A Sustainable and Resilient Educational Campus”
- CGBC Fall Lecture: Marilyne Andersen on “Radiant Indoors – Bridging Research and Practice”
- CGBC Fall Lecture: Michael Wetter on “Quo Vadis Building Simulation – New Generation Computational Tools that Integrate Design and Operation”
- CGBC Files New Patent on Fault Detection Platform and Smart Building Applications
- CGBC Founding Director Ali Malkawi to Speak in Beijing at ‘Your Harvard’ Event
- CGBC hosts “Sustainability in Scandinavia” featuring 12 speakers from Norway, Denmark, Sweden
- CGBC launches online forecasting tool to analyze building energy consumption
- CGBC Lecture Series: Benjamín Romano on “Integrating Flow in High Rise Structures”
- CGBC Lecture Series: Gordon Gill
- CGBC publishes on predicting thermal & energy performance of mixed-mode ventilation
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talk: Application of CFD Automation for Green Buildings Certification
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talk: Building Energy Forecasting for Operation Optimization
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talk: Modelling Intelligent Systems
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talk: Natural Ventilation Potential in China and Its Impact on Efficiency
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talk: Open HVAC Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Smart Buildings
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “10 Questions Regarding Life Cycle Design”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Designing Green Walls”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Ecological Urbanism Metric Systems (EUMS)”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Personal Care and Household Product Safety”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “The Health of the Indoors: Product Safety and Transparency”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Thermal Comfort, Health, Adaption in the Built Environment”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Architecture-d Materials for Envelope Heat Recovery”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Data-oriented Modeling for Buildings and Systems”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Energy Demand Forecasting”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Energy Management in Smart Grids and Smart Buildings”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Evaluating Urban Sustainability”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Natural Ventilation Design with Computational Fluid Dynamics”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: “Natural Ventilation Possibility”
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: Distributed Temperature Control via HVAC Systems
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: Measuring Economic Productivity in the U.S. Construction Industry
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: Production & Air Pollution in China
- CGBC Research & Innovation Talks: Termite Inspired Technology + High-Rise Topology
- CGBC Research and Innovation Talks: “A Sustainable Built Environment Through Modeling”
- CGBC Research and Innovation Talks: “Current Technology Review of Building Envelopes”
- CGBC Research and Innovation Talks: “Heat Exchanging Elements for Low Exergy Buildings”
- CGBC Research and Innovation Talks: “Waste: Materials Assemblies and Energy”
- CGBC researchers collaborate with SEAS on a project that unlocks hidden potential of porous metamaterials
- CGBC researchers publish article about natural ventilation potential, air pollution
- CGBC researchers publish article about traffic-related air pollution and indoor air
- CGBC researchers publish article on natural ventilation design simulations, influence region
- CGBC researchers recently received the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Building Energy & Environment (COBEE 2022)
- CGBC Researchers Recognized with Best Paper Award and Willis H. Carrier Award at the 2024 ASHRAE Conference
- CGBC Spring Lecture Series: Daniel Nocera, “Fuel and Food for All from Sunlight, Air and Water”
- CGBC Spring Lecture Series: Mark Chambers
- CGBC Spring Lecture: Anne Beim on “Real Possibilities and Possible Realities: Absolute Sustainable Architecture, Materials and Tectonics”
- CGBC Spring Lecture: Darren Robinson on “Multiscale Simulation of Buildings as Complex Sociotechnical Systems”
- CGBC Spring Lecture: Hanif Kara on “Sustainable Practice Concerns”
- CGBC Spring Lecture: Professor Vladimir Bazjanac on the “Data Confidence Factor”
- CGBC team publishes on design of porous materials for heat exchange, decentralized ventilation
- CGBC’s Ali Malkawi to Present at “Building Tomorrow”: Harvard Arab World Weekend
- CGBC’s Salmaan Craig speaks at International LafargeHolcim Forum on Infrastructural Space
- CHGE Director’s Lecture: “Planetary-Scale Primary Prevention for the 21st Century”
- CHGE Director’s Lecture: “Re-Envisioning Health and Sustainability”
- China 2035: Energy, Climate and Development
- China Economy Seminar: Using Market Data to Estimate Willingness to Pay for Clean Air
- China Project Lecture: Barbara Finamore on “Building Energy Efficiency in China”
- China Project Seminar: Decarbonizing China
- Cities, Technologies and Political Imaginaries: From the Networked Metropolis to the Smart Cities
- Climate change TV series ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ wins Emmy for Best Documentary
- Construction Drive: Harvard to give 1920s house a green overhaul
- Core research faculty from the CGBC win Salata Institute grants for projects confronting climate change
- Curbed: Building a model for energy efficiency by renovating a decades–old home
- Curbed: Harvard HouseZero wants to revolutionize green building
- David Leatherbarrow and Ali Malkawi Speak on Measurement and Meaning in Copenhagen
- Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment
- Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment
- Designing Sustainable Solutions for a Better Built Environment: Climate Action Week 2023
- Dezeen: HouseZero aims to “solve one of the world’s biggest energy problems”
- Dezeen: Ultra-efficient HouseZero at Harvard University is completed
- Discussion with Alberto Pototschnig: “The Integration of the Internal Energy Market in the EU”
- Discussion: How Does Light Impact Health?
- Discussion: Lessons from Boston, Using Technology to Improve City Services
- Drew Gilpin Faust: What Universities Can Do About Climate Change
- Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars
- Dwell features Ali Malkawi as one of eight climate-conscious design visionaries
- Eco Folly Exhibition Opening Reception
- Energy Department Announces $10 Million for Innovative Commercial Building Technologies
- Energy.gov launches How Energy Works series
- Environment@Harvard: Profile of Founding Director Ali Malkawi
- Environmental Adaptions
- Environmental Adaptions / Adaptive Environments
- Environmental Forum: Our National Parks As Breathing Spaces
- ETIP + Consortium Energy Policy Seminar: “New York’s ‘Reforming the Energy Vision’ Initiative”
- ETIP/Consortium Energy Policy Seminar: Arik Levinson Presents
- Faculty Profile: Ali Malkawi
- Fast Company: Harvard researchers designed a cheaper, more efficient air conditioner
- Fast Company: Harvard’s new HouseZero showcases efficiency retrofits
- Fast Company: The home of the future is the one you’re already living in
- Fast Company: This super-efficient renovation is a model for lowering a house’s energy footprint
- First two CGBC-sponsored DDes Fellows defend dissertation
- Forbes: This 94-Year-Old Home May Be The Key To Revolutionizing Green Tech
- Fraunhofer develops new fuel cell for home
- Graduate School of Design Launches $110-Million Campaign
- GSD Adaptive Architectures and Smart Material Conference
- GSD adds new PhD track in Architectural Technology associated with the CGBC
- GSD Discussion: Housing—What Next?
- GSD Lecture Series: Holly Samuelson on ‘Near-Zero: Simulation-Aided Design of a Low-Energy House’
- GSD Lecture: Mexico City Mayor Miguel Mancera
- GSD Lecture: Politics of Democracy in the City of Tomorrow
- GSD Student Teams Win First-Place Honors at 2013-14 NESEA Net-Zero Energy Design Competition
- GSD Students and Alumni Win International Building Simulation Competitions
- GSD students awarded Design Miami’s 2015 Entry Pavilion
- GSD Symposium on Architecture: “Anachronometrics”
- GSD to convene Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas series
- GSD’s Kiel Moe talks air conditioning, historically and today, with Science Friday
- Harvard Aga Khan Program Lecture: Bijoy Jain, “Lore”
- Harvard Announces New Sustainability Plan
- Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities Hosts Zero House Workshop Series with Industry Experts
- Harvard CGBC receives Microsoft Azure Research Award
- Harvard CGBC research featured at IBSPA conference in India
- Harvard CGBC Unveils First-of-its-Kind HouseZero Lab & Prototype
- Harvard China Project: Climate change, urbanization and rainfall in China
- Harvard China Project: Nobel laureate Mario Molina on air quality in megacities
- Harvard China Project: Urbanization, Built Environment and Indoor Air in China
- Harvard Climate Week: Bud Ris on “Climate Ready Boston: Planning for the Challenges Ahead”
- Harvard Climate Week: Kairos Shen on “Building and Planning for Climate Change”
- Harvard Club of France Lecture: Founding Director Ali Malkawi on HouseZero
- Harvard Consortium for Energy Policy Research: Ali Malkawi on HouseZero
- Harvard Crimson: Architect Norman Foster Lectures at the School of Design
- Harvard Crimson: Architect Richard Rogers Lectures at the GSD
- Harvard Gazette Q&A: A house that produces energy
- Harvard Gazette: A model of efficiency
- Harvard Gazette: Harvard announces Evergrande support of three initiatives including the Center for Green Buildings and Cities
- Harvard Geography Colloquium: Andres Sevtsuk on Urban Design and Analytics
- Harvard Global Institute Symposium: Climate Change and the Developing World
- Harvard Graduate School of Design Announces New Center for Green Buildings and Cities
- Harvard GSD Lecture: Kate Orff, “Toward an Urban Ecology”
- Harvard GSD: Richard Rogers delivers second annual Harvard CGBC Lecture
- Harvard HouseZero Typology Symposium
- Harvard Innovation and Sustainability Fair
- Harvard IOP Lecture by Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz
- Harvard Magazine: Greener Buildings and Cities
- Harvard Magazine: Harvard “HouseZero”
- Harvard Magazine: The Challenges of Greener Cities
- Harvard Office for Sustainability publishes 2015 University-wide Sustainability Report
- Harvard Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques”
- Harvard University President’s Panel on Climate Change
- Harvard Worldwide Week: The Future of Cities
- HKS Discussion: America’s Cities—Where Government Gets Things Done
- HKS Discussion: America’s Cities—Where Government Gets Things Done
- HKS Energy Policy Research Series: “Clean Power Plan Model Rules: Pathways for Implementation”
- HLS Lecture: Jeffrey Sachs on “The Age of Sustainable Development”
- Holly Samuelson gives keynote talk at Norman Foster Foundation workshop on energy
- HouseZero Performance Data Showcased at a Hackathon Workshop Conducted by AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
- HouseZero: A Zero Energy Retrofit
- HouseZero® Featured in BBC Segment: “Staying Cool”
- How Designers Can Help Keep Our Air Breathable
- HSPH Sustainability For Health Leadership Series: Rachel Gutter & Kelly McCarthy
- HSPH Sustainability For Health Leadership Series: Rick Fedrizzi
- HSPH Sustainability in Health Leadership Series: Bernstein & Mandyck
- HSPH Sustainability in Health Leadership Series: Bernstein, Henriksen & Blackmon
- HUBweek Event: Coping with Climate Change: How Will Boston Adapt?
- HUCE Launches “Harvard Speaks On Climate Change”
- Hyper Green High-Rises: Towards a Zero-Energy Skyscraper
- Inaugural Conference of the Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization: “heliomorphism”
- Inequalities/Equalities in Cities Workshop at the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics
- Infrastructure Resilience II: Advancing Planning and Design Tools
- JCHS Lecture: Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh
- Joint Center for Housing Studies Lecture: “Cities Within a City”
- Kairos Shen Speaks on Climate Change and Preparedness at Harvard Climate Week
- Ken Yeang Lecture: “Ecoarchitecture & Ecomasterplanning”
- L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui talks to Ali Malkawi about HouseZero and the future of simulation software and predictive tools
- Lecture: How Does the Environment Affect Our Health?
- Les Norford Lecture: “Buildings, Urban Environments and Electricity Grids”
- Lessons Learned
- LG Hausys and CGBC Research Teams participate in Smart House Workshop
- Living Lab: Innovative Green Building Solutions
- Malkawi featured in The Guardian: “How malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable”
- Malkawi to serve on 2019 Master Jury for Aga Khan Award for Architecture
- Malkawi, Nygaard, Beim & Stenberg publish “Sustainability in Scandinavia”
- Matan Mayer Speaks on Material Inputs in Buenos Aires
- Matan Mayer Speaks on Material Recovery Potential @ ISIE conference
- Metro: Harvard is updating a home from the 1920s to be ‘ultra’ energy efficient
- Metropolis Magazine: Harvard Opens Prototype for Super-Sustainable Retrofits
- Multidisciplinary team of designers from the CGBC and scientists from SEAS are awarded funding through Harvard Climate Change Solutions Fund
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory Hosts Sustainable Design Challenge
- Natures Urbaines Exhibition Presented at the Pavillion de L’Arsenal and in Published Book
- NEREJ: Retrofitting existing buildings is new frontier of energy efficiency
- New Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability to launch in fall of 2022
- New York Magazine: Is This Harvard Prototype the Greenest House in America?
- Newly-published research shows Harvard’s experimental lab HouseZero achieves high energy efficiency with natural ventilation and thermally active building system
- NY Times: For Ideas on How to Live Greener, Think Mobile
- On Natural and Artificial Optimization
- Paving the Way for Circular Architecture
- PBS NewsHour: Architectural design for buildings that create more energy than they consume
- Postponed: CGBC Spring 2020 Lunchtime Lecture Series
- Pratik Raval Lecture: “Climate Design for Built Environment”
- President Faust Speaks on Climate Change & Collaboration in China
- President Faust, Malkawi, Zhuang address Your Harvard gathering of alumni, faculty, friends in Beijing
- Press Release: Address By Renowned Architect Norman Foster Keynotes Two-Day Event
- Princess Sumaya bint Hassan of Jordan visits the CGBC
- Project Air: Innovative Air Quality Technology Tested at HouseZero®
- Publication by CGBC researchers is recognized with “Best Paper Award of Energy and Buildings published in the period from 2018 to 2022”
- Publication by CGBC researchers selected as one of “Best of 2022” in Advanced Materials Technologies
- Quartz: Harvard’s HouseZero sounds like a dream office, even without an HVAC system
- Research & Innovation Talks: The High-Rise Residential Typology and Energy Performance
- Research on reducing energy consumption and use of harmful refrigerants in AC receives Climate Change Solutions Fund Award
- Research Spotlight: Older People, Places, and Climate Change
- Residential Energy Consumption and NREL Resources
- Richard Rogers to deliver CGBC’s Annual Lecture 2016
- Romano’s Torre Reforma Wins 2018 International Highrise Award
- SAI Event: On spatial data & technology for building resilience in Nepal
- SAI Events: A Cross-regional Dialogue about Strategies for Local Practice in Cities
- SAI Lecture: “Is decentralization good for development?”
- SAI Urbanization Seminar: “Urbanization in South Asia”
- Salmaan Craig to discuss thermoregulation of buildings at Le Lab ArtScience Talks
- Science & Democracy Lecture: Rachel Kyte
- Science in the News presents “Air Pollution Knows No Boundaries”
- Seminar: “Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?”
- Seminar: Development, Dissent and Architecture in the building of Modern India
- SHINE Summit 2015: Innovating for NetPositive Impact
- Solar Gate: Bioinspired and Biobased 4D-printing for Weather-responsive Smart Shading
- South Asia Institute: India, the Urban Transition
- Southeast Asia Explores Sustainable Development Conference
- SpainGSD Lecture Series: “An Aesthetic of Energy? Mulling over Sustainability”
- Steve Kemp Lecture: “Great Enclosures Enable Great HVAC Design”
- Struggling to design green buildings amid shifting legal, tech landscape
- Sustainability in Scandinavia reprise to take place at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design
- Sustainable Building Futures: Leveraging Policy to Scale Technology and Foster Innovation for Global Climate Goals
- Symposium on Architecture: “Design Techniques II”
- Symposium on Architecture: “Interior Matters”
- Symposium on Architecture: Organization or Design?
- The 12th Annual Energy Symposium at Harvard Business School
- The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
- The Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability Announces Major Grant Inspired by HouseZero®
- The Inequality of Heat
- The Wall Street Journal features Holly Samuelson on the future of office design
- The Wall Street Journal features Joseph Allen on why ventilation and filtration matter in indoor spaces
- TORRE REFORMA is named a 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2019 winner
- UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon invites leaders to 2014 Climate Summit
- Unplugged City: The obsolescence of the physical grid and imaging the future of the urban
- Urban Environments, Buildings and Climate Adaptation in Global South
- Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: National Patterns in International Perspective
- Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design 2015: Madrid RÍO
- Viewpoints: Kumbh Mela, Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity
- Vivian Loftness Lecture: “Research Supporting Biophilic Design”
- Vogue talks to Holly Samuelson about what your office may look like after lockdown
- What to expect from the next UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris
- Ying Liu publishes an article analyzing pedestrian flow by describing diffusion behavior
- Zheming Tong publishes article on air quality and urban rooftop vegetable farms
- Zofnass Program: Planning Sustainable Cities Conference
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