What if everyone had access to a home that was built without damaging the planet?

Stanford alum Charles Bovet, MS ’14, Civil and Environmental Engineering, shares the work he is doing to build energy-efficient homes with nearly zero waste.

“The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.” This is one of the reasons Charles Bovet chose to study civil engineering at Stanford and then go to work in residential construction. There are enormous opportunities to improve this industry, specifically from an energy-efficiency perspective, and his team is doing just that. Bovet and his team recently finished construction of a clean, renewable energy home for Mark Jacobson, Stanford professor of civil and environmental engineering. The home uses no gas; it’s purely electric, and the electricity used is generated primarily by sunlight.