Decarbonizing Energy and Industry
Professor Reinhart is the Alan and Terri Spoon Professor of Architecture and Climate, director of MIT’s Building Technology Program in the School of Architecture and Planning, and lead of the Sustainable Design Lab, which develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods.
Department:
Department of Architecture
Research Laboratory:
Sustainable Design Lab
Academic Groups and Centers:
Building Technology Program
MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
MIT Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
MIT News:
Students research pathways for MIT to reach decarbonization goals
Cutting urban carbon emissions by retrofitting buildings
Faculty, staff, students to evaluate ways to decarbonize MIT's campus
2024 MIT Robotics & Climate Workshop: Keynote (video)
Short Bio:
Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and architectural educator working in the field of sustainable building design and environmental modeling. At MIT, he is the inaugural Alan and Terri Spoon Professor of Architecture and Climate and Director of the Institute’s Climate Mission on Resilient Cities. He also heads the Sustainable Design Lab (SDL), an inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods.
Outside of MIT, Christoph is a managing member at technology company Solemma and served as strategic development advisor for MIT spinoff mapdwell until it joined Palmetto Clean Technology in 2021. Planning tools originating from SDL and Solemma are used in practice and education in over 90 countries.