Climate Solutions

Cheng-Kai (Kai) Hsu’s findings highlight the need for regulatory oversight to protect vulnerable gig workers and the public.

Naidu Janardhan, a leader in community-led design and sustainable architecture, will be in residence at the College of Environmental Design during the fall 2024 semester.

This year’s projects focus on neighborhood energy-sharing strategies, flood adaptation in unincorporated areas, and heat and pollution in urbanizing towns.

In an interview published in Arch Daily, Professor Ronald Rael shares his views on the potential of AI, material culture, the role of the architect in society, architectural education, sustainability, and more.

Paul Mayencourt is prototyping sustainable construction materials and methods in the Wood Lab, including a solar kiln.

An exhibition and lecture reveal innovative research into climate solutions by CED faculty.

The founding principal of Peripheral Projects, Tidwell joins the department at a pivotal moment, when explorations into new materials and methods, and the capabilities of wood in particular, are deepening.

Geospatial scientist Lu Liang uses GIS and UAV to explore how environmental conditions, such as air pollution, impact the daily lives of individuals.

The Berkeley facility is now one of the most advanced test chambers of its type and new studies are already underway.

Rivera’s prize-winning article argues that engaging local histories of racism and prejudice in Texas’s Río Grande Valley is key to redressing post-disaster inequities.

Senior author Stefano Schiavon, professor of architecture and researcher at the Center for the Built Environment, says that this pilot program for hybrid cooling in Singapore exceeded his expectations.

Lead researcher Kristina Hill publishes groundbreaking study in the journal Earth’s Future.

This new grant program supports cross-disciplinary projects led by CED faculty that aim to reduce the impacts of climate change. This year’s funded projects forge innovations in climate resilience through explorations in building technologies and materials, housing security, water access, and community-based climate visualizations. These projects stood out from the field of applications for their impact on underserved communities and their capacity to have actionable environmental outcomes.

On September 25, Terner Labs hosts the inaugural symposium, The Search for Affordable Rental Housing, a deep dive into how technology is helping and hurting individuals who are seeking affordable rental housing.

CED announces its fall lineup of public lectures.

CED announces Sierra Bainbridge as the recipient of the 2023–2024 Berkeley Rupp Prize. Bainbridge, an award-winning landscape architect and a co-founder of MASS Design Group, has worked at the forefront of initiatives that explore the role of design in cultural and environmental healing.

The prize–winning architect and founding principal of Office e.g. is focused on developing new environmentalisms in architecture.

Sounding the alarm on the looming threat right beneath our feet, a new study reveals more than 5,200 Bay Area sites vulnerable to rising groundwater.

A multiyear collaboration between the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Jackson State University in Mississippi is bringing students together to address flood mitigation and enhanced river access along Jackson’s Pearl River and California’s Sacramento River.

CED professor Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, of Emerging Objects, receive the 2023 Jeff Harnar Social & Environmental Justice award for their project Casa Covid, which combines 3D printing with Indigenous building methods and materials.