Scaling Integrative Design for Radical Energy Efficiency

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Integrative design optimizes buildings, vehicles, factories, and equipment as whole systems. This makes the energy efficiency resource severalfold bigger and cheaper, often with increasing returns, helping to enable profitable climate protection. Integrative design is proven and shows immense value, yet is rarely taught or practiced. This seminar explores how more than a dozen diverse scaling vectors can be harnessed to change integrative design rapidly from rare to common, and thus transform the human prospect and pathways to a host of climate solutions. Prerequisites: CEE 107H/207H, CEE 107R/207R, or by permission of instructor.