The mission of this program is to fundamentally improve the quality of the built environment towards long-term-sustainability through research and design methodology from large scale urban systems design to high-performance building structures, sustainable materials and methods of advanced building systems integration.

A further focus of the program is to extend constructability, environmental performance, life cycle, systems durability and recyclability of targeted building materials and to reduce environmental impacts related to materials, manufacturing transport, assembly, operation and maintenance.

Resource efficiency over the entire building life cycle is of primary research importance in order to analyze and develop sustainable solutions including ecological, climatic, social, cultural and economic considerations for major innovations of building systems.

See the (1) Materials Sustainability Lab and the (2) Solar Building Project

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