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PostMay 13, 2021

MITx Course: Sustainable Building Design

MIT Open Learning

Elements of energy-efficient house

PostMarch 26, 2021

Cooling homes without warming the planet

The startup Transaera is using a class of materials called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, to create air conditioners that could have five times less impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs.

PostJanuary 26, 2021

Unravelling carbon uptake in concrete pavements

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

A model developed at MIT suggests that a natural carbon uptake process in concrete could offset 5 percent of the CO2 emissions generated from the cement used in U.S. pavements.

PostDecember 18, 2020

Making smart thermostats more efficient

A diagram from a new paper describing a smart thermostat shows the interaction of weather conditions, control systems, sensors, and learning algorithms to optimize microclimates in buildings.

PodcastDecember 14, 2020

Building technology

MIT Energy Initiative

PostDecember 1, 2020

3 Questions: Hessam AzariJafari on mitigating climate change with reflectiv...

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub

Reflective pavements could reduce the frequency of heat waves in Chicago by around 30 percent over 20 years.

PostOctober 14, 2020

MIT.nano receives LEED Platinum certification

PostAugust 10, 2020

3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem th...

MIT’s Asegun Henry on tackling five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the global warming tide: “Our mission here is to save humanity from extinction due to climate change.”

PostAugust 6, 2020

When the chemical industry met modern architecture

MIT graduate student Jessica Varner has explored how the chemical industry wooed the building and construction industry with new synthetic materials at the turn of the 20th century. The result, she writes in her dissertation, was “one of the most successful, and toxic, material transformations in modern history.”

PostJuly 22, 2020

Environmental Technologies in Buildings

Photo of a modern house with movable wooden slat panels to shade large exterior windows.

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