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Built environment and infrastructure

Research

Using nature’s structures in wooden buildings

Tools for designing with forked tree branches

Accelerating 3D printing

Faster fabrication, renewable materials

Urban sustainability

Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities

Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate

A pathway to flexible, resilient architecture

Publications

UMI – An Urban Simulation Environment for Building Energy Use, Daylighting and Walkability

August 2013

ENERNET: Studying the dynamic relationship between building occupancy and energy consumption

April 2012

Cooking Stoves, Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Rural Orissa

August 2008

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People

Moshe Ben-Akiva
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Richard de Neufville
Professor, Engineering Systems
Institute for Data; Systems; and Society
Olivier de Weck
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Xuanlai Fang
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mark Goulthorpe
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
Lelia Marie Hampton
Graduate Student
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yuin-Jen Hsu
Associate Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Ruben Juanes
Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Randolph Kirchain
Principal Research Scientist
Materials Research Laboratory
Kent Larson
Professor, Media Lab
Media Lab
Caitlin Mueller
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
Leslie Norford
Professor
Department of Architecture
Tomás Palacios
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Christoph Reinhart
Professor
Department of Architecture
Yang Shao-Horn
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lawrence Susskind
Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Qiqi Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Brian Williams
Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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