The Harvard Magazine gives an account of the CGBC Inaugural Challenge Conference on November 7, 2014, an event that formally introduced the Center and convened leaders from industry and academia to discuss pressing questions for the fields of sustainability and design.
The event featured James Carpenter of James Carpenter Design Associates; Alejandro Murat, CEO of INFONAVIT; Joshua Prince-Ramus, Principal of REX; Daniel Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry; Gordon Gill of Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture; Phil Harrison, CEO of Perkins and Will; and other special guests. President Drew Gilpin Faust, GSD Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, and Harvard CGBC Director Ali Malkawi introduced the conversation.