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 

      Gascón Alvarez, Eduardo (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 ...

    • Convex Network Flows 

      Diamandis, Theo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-09)
      This thesis introduces a new framework for flow problems over hypergraphs. Our problem formulation, which we call the convex flow problem, only assumes that the constraints on the flows over each edge are in some convex ...

    • Accelerating Urban Building Energy Modeling 

      Le Hong, Zoe; Wolk, Samuel (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 ...