The HMC Architects/Cal Poly Pomona team of Pablo La Roche, Eera Babtiwale, James Krueger and Brandon Gullotti (Cal Poly grad student) are finalists in MIT’s Climate CoLab competition! The goal of the Climate CoLab is to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people from all around the world to address global climate change. Inspired by systems like Wikipedia and Linux, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence developed CoLab as an on-line forum where citizens create, analyze and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change—seeking to harness collective intelligence through online competitions.

Pablo and the team submitted their research on active green roofs to the Climate CoLab and it has been selected as one of four finalists internationally! Their research is based on the pitch that, a smart green roof that can couple or decouple its thermal mass with the space to help with cooling in the summer and heating in the winter. The team is also integrating applied research results in HMC’s design for Irvine High School #5.

A panel of professionals is jurying the competition, but there is also an online competition for the People’s Choice Award. Please help show support for the team’s research by registering online and voting for this project.

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