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• Completed
• Urban Case Study

• Ongoing C-Tech
  Climate Driven Technologies for Low Carbon Cities
  since 2020
• Ongoing ClimaPlus
  Climate-responsive design for all
  since 2020
• Ongoing Food Survey
  What is the carbon content of your food?
  since 2020
• Ongoing EdX Sustainble Building Design
  Massive Open Online Class
  since 2020
• Ongoing Harvest
  UMI plugin for urban food production simulation
  since 2018
• Completed, UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Chicago
  Development of an UBEM of parts of Chicago
  2017 - 2020
• Ongoing Urban Modeling Interface
  Development of a modeling environment to evaluate the environmental performance of neighborhoods and cities.
  since 2012
• Ongoing UMI Plugin Play
  Learn how to build 3rd party urban modeling plugins for UMI
  since 2017
• Completed BT's New Heliodon
  The Building Technology program has a new heliodon. Watch the tutorial and use it.
  2019
• Completed Daylighting Handbook II
  Christoph Reinhart's second textbook on daylighting.
  2018
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Lisbon
  Comprehensive energy, daylight and food analysis of two Lisbon neighborhoods.
  2014 - 2018
• Completed Predicting Outdoor Comfort
  Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) simulations explain dwelling patterns of 16,000 regulars in a public courtyard in Cambridge.
  2016 - 2017
• Ongoing Quick Simulations
  "Quick" simulation workflows for practice, teaching and research
  since 2017
• Completed UMI Dashboard
  Prototypical web-powered simulation results viewer.
  2015 - 2017
• Completed UMIverse
  Portal for urban-level simulation projects around the world.
  since 2011
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Kuwait City
  Development of a calibrated operational and embodied energy model of a neighborhood of Kuwait City
  2013 - 2017
• Completed Accelerad
  Fast daylighting simulation on graphics hardware at up to 20 times the speed of Radiance.
  2014 - 2017
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Cambridge
  Development of Bayesian-based residential archetypes in Cambridge, MA
  2014 - 2016
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Boston
  Development of a city-wide building energy model of Boston
  2014 - 2016
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy UBEM Riyadh - CitySchema
  Development of a tangible use interface for urban design
  2013 - 2015
• Completed Daylighting Handbook I
  Christoph Reinhart's first textbook on daylighting.
  2014
• Completed Simulation Game Revisited
  Improved building energy simulation game for AchSim/EnergyPlus.
  2015
• Completed Section Cut
  Dan Weissman and Kyle Sturgis interview Christoph Reinhart
  2015
• Completed DIVA Tutorials
  Series of Video tutorials for DIVA.
  2015
• Completed Comfort in Motion
  Design strategies to promote human-powered mobility through comfortable outdoor spaces.
  2014
• Completed TEDxTalk Cairo
  Tarek Rakha on human-powered transportation.
  2014
• Completed,UrbanCaseStudy Revitalizing Lower Roxbury
  Development of an energy retrofitting and walkability concept for a Boston neighborhood.
  2014
• Completed Reference Office
  Development of a modeling and analysis convention for a side- and/or toplit space for comparative analyses of different façade and lighting technologies.
  2013 - 2014
• Completed Lorax Project
  The ambition of this project is to bring some of the questions raised in daylighting metics committees into schools of architecture.
  2012 - 2014
• Completed PULSE
  The objective of this NSF project is to develop an urban simulation platform. The project is a collaboration with Penn State and the Harvard School of Public Health.
  2011 - 2015
• Completed Urban Microclimate
  Effort to predict local effects of neighboring buildings and landscape on ambient temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation and wind.
  2012 - 2014
• Completed Walkable Cities
  This project aims to devleop new analysis workflows to facilitate the design of more pedestrian and bike friendly neighborhoods.
  2012 - 2013
• Completed Glare Analysis
  Development of experimental and computer-based design analysis techniques to asses the appearance of glare in daylit spaces.
  2011 - 2013
• Completed Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design
  Initial public release of umi on May 6 2013
  2013
• Completed Glare in the Built Environment
  When new constructions such as PV panels or new buildings are created, the potential for glare in surrounding buildings is often overlooked.
  2012 - 2013
• Completed Cambridge Solar Map
  Development of a Solar Map for Cambridge in collaboration with the City of Cambridge and Modern Development Studio.
  2011 - 2012
• Completed Urban Daylight
  Development of a new technique to quantify the daylighting potential of cities and neighborhoods.
  2012
• Completed Simulation Game
  90-minutes in-class exercise or ‘game’ based on DesignBuilder/ EnergyPlus
  2012 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Solar Envelope
  Investigation of a solar-envelope zoning approach for the most common building type in the United States with respect to energy use and developable density.
  2011 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Continuous Commissioning
  Can energy models generated during building design can be calibrated for use during building operation?
  2011 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Shaderade
  Development of an innovative approach for static shading device design.
  2011 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Ceramic Futures
  Design and build a flexible, high performance static external shading system made out of ceramics.
  2011 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Daylighting Dashboard
  Development of enhanced computer-based analysis techniques for daylit spaces. Supported by Autodesk.
  2010 G(SD)² Project
• Completed Experimental Validation of 3ds Max Design and Daysim
  
  2009