Harvard HouseZero
Back to Projects list- Location
- Cambridge, USA
- Year
- 2018
- Client
- Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
- Lead Architect, Landscape Architect and Interior Designer
- Snøhetta
- Energy/Climate Engineer
- Skanska Teknikk (Norway)
- Structural Engineering
- Silman Associates
- MEP/FP Engineering, Lighting
- BR+A
- Civil Engineering
- Bristol Engineering
- BAS/Controls/Natural Ventilation System
- WindowMaster
- Acoustics
- Brekke & Strand Akustikk
- Code & Accessibility
- Jensen Hughes
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Haley & Aldrich
- Vertical Transportation
- Syska Hennesy
- Specficiations
- Kalin Associates
- BAS/Controls/Security Systems
- Siemens Building Technologies
- Photovoltaic System
- Solect Energy
- Landscape Architect, rear yard and surrounding properties
- Reed Hilderbrand
- Project Management
- Harvard Planning & Project Management & CSL Consulting
- Operations Support
- Harvard Graduate School of Design Staff
Monday, December 3, 2018 — The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced today the completion of HouseZero, the retrofitting of its headquarters in a pre-1940s building in Cambridge into an ambitious living-laboratory and an energy-positive prototype for ultra-efficiency that will help us to understand buildings in new ways. The design of HouseZero has been driven by radically ambitious performance targets from the outset, including nearly zero energy for heating and cooling, zero electric lighting during the day, operating with 100 percent natural ventilation, and producing zero carbon emissions. The building is intended to produce more energy over its lifetime than was used to renovate it and throughout its subsequent operation. Snøhetta was the project’s lead architect and Skanska Teknikk Norway was the lead energy engineer.