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All Hands on Deck for Wildfire Resilience

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CIEE Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Miriam Aczel shares her impressions from the 2023 Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) Conference, where diverse stakeholders gathered to discuss wildfire risk in the built environment and propose solutions that support community resilience.

Hamilton Sensors: Operating the Next Generation of Smart Buildings

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On March 31, 2021, the Hamilton project came to a close after four and a half years. Named after Alexander Hamilton, whose portrait appears on the ten-dollar bill, the project developed a modular, open-source, low-cost wireless sensor system to enable energy-efficient building operations for only ten dollars.