Our researchers and faculty focus on four interrelated areas of research: design and operation, high-performance materials and construction, technology adoption and diffusion, and sustainable planning. Learn about our research.

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HouseZero, the Center’s headquarters, is a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA that was retrofitted into an ultra-efficiency, healthy, positive energy structure and lab with ambitious performance targets. Explore HouseZero.

Through research, innovation, and collaboration, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities is promoting holistic change within the built environment. Discover our Center.

The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities has retrofitted its headquarters, a pre-1940s house in Cambridge, MA, into an ultra-efficient, healthy, positive energy structure. (Images: Snøhetta/Plompmozes)

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Gordon Gill, Architect & Founding Partner of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, will present on Thursday, April 20th in Gund Hall.
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On Tuesday, October 18, the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) welcomed Richard Rogers as the speaker for its second annual lecture, a new highlight of Harvard GSD’s critically acclaimed speaker series. Click photo to watch the lecture. [Photos by Justin Knight.]

By strongly emphasizing innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration, the Center will work to promote holistic change within the built environment, namely the creation and continued improvement of sustainable, high performance buildings and cities.