Built Environment & Infrastructure

Research focused on sustainable design, energy efficiency, and material development for the built environment and large-scale infrastructure

"The Soft House" model from Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate, Energy Futures, Spring 2013 Credit: KVA MATx

Research

Urban sustainability

Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities

Building façades that move, textiles that illuminate

A pathway to flexible, resilient architecture

Publications

Journal Articles

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

August 2013

Christoph Reinhart

Journal Articles

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

April 2012

Carlo Ratti

Journal Articles

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

August 2008

Esther Duflo

News

Eskom’s unsustainable business model in need of proactive reform – Eberhard

Engineering News

In Engineering News, MITEI's Ignacio Perez-Arriaga discusses how changing patterns of electricity use are forcing global power utilities to rethink their "antiquated business models." The article cites examples from MITEI's Utility of the Future study.

The problem with electric cars? Not enough chargers

The Wall Street Journal

Researchers: Models overstate technology impact, understate location impact for unconventional wells

Journal of Petroleum Technology

People

Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Olivier de Weck Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Ruben Juanes Associate Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kent Larson Principal Research Scientist

MIT Media Lab

Leslie Norford Professor

Architecture

Tomás Palacios Professor

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Christoph Reinhart Associate Professor

Architecture

Yang Shao-Horn Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Qiqi Wang Associate Professor

Aeronautics and Astronautics

James Wescoat Professor

Architecture

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Meejin Yoon Department Head and Professor

Architecture