Professor Malkawi will talk about the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities’ HouseZero project, which aims to retrofit of its headquarters, a pre-1940s stick-built house on Harvard campus in Cambridge, into a prototype of ultra-efficiency. The structure will use no HVAC system, no electric light use during the day, 100% natural ventilation, almost zero energy, and produce zero carbon emissions.
HouseZero will feature an ultra-healthy, flexible, comfortable indoors that works to fundamentally redefine how a home connects with and responds to its natural environment to promote health and efficiency. All components of the building contain sensors that essentially turn HouseZero into a living lab, generating data that will allow the building to adjust itself and fuel further CGBC research focused on actual data and simulated environments.
The challenge is to retrofit existing houses to gain sustainability, more ecological, cost effective, and higher efficiency. Malkawi uses existing technologies with a new design approach to construct and operate buildings. He expects not only to implement sustainable practices but he advocates that this can lead to billion of dollars in savings per year.
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DATE: Monday, July 10, 2017
LOCATION:
Amphithéâtre Urbain,
Ecole Supérieure de Chimie et Physique Industrielle
10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris
TIME: 19:30 – 21:00
TICKETS:
HCF 2017 members, non-members, guests: 10 euros
PSL staff, students and guests: 10 euros
This is joint event HCF and Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) event.
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