Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions
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Cooling with less: Design and simulation of multifunctional building components for a material-efficient, heat-resilient architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-02)As temperatures rise globally and the demand for housing intensifies, designing affordable buildings for heat resilience and with low carbon emissions becomes crucial. Conventional air conditioning (AC) systems, although ... -
Accelerating Urban Building Energy Modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)Enabling data-driven decision-making in the built environment is critical to achieving ambitious and urgent decarbonization goals. In the building sector, urban building energy models (UBEMs) have become a valuable tool ... -
From Waste to Structure: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Circular Design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)The design-to-construction process of buildings predominantly follows a top-down linear workflow, where a design is drawn and subsequently refined to determine the required materials and components. This approach assumes ...
