Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Deleveraging domesticity : incremental design forays on middle income housing 

      Miller, Christopher M., M. Arch. (Christopher Michael). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      Housing today has little do with architecture. Design is a currency of services, while housing today is intensively packaged as a consumer good. It is packaged with land as speculative real-estate, and bundled abstractly ...

    • Lightweight concrete : investigations into the production of variable density cellular materials 

      Cooke, Timothy Graham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
      This research focuses on the intersection between material composition and form in the development of a new type of concrete. As concrete is the most widely used building material in the world, innovation in this material ...

    • Toward zero net energy buildings : optimized for energy use and cost 

      Brown, Carrie Ann, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
      Recently, there has been a push toward zero net energy buildings (ZNEBs). While there are many options to reduce the energy used in buildings, it is often difficult to determine which are the most appropriate technologies ...