KPMB Architect’s New Sustainable Building
Photo by Tom Arban.
Providing examples for the future, Boston University's (BU) newest building is a sustainable sight not to be missed. The new home for the Center of Computing & Data Sciences, located at 665 Commonwealth Ave., is 305 feet tall with panoramic views of the city.
Currently the largest sustainable building in Boston, KPMB seeks to influence others on how to build for a “carbon-free” future.
Excerpted from “KPMB Architects unveils ‘vertical campus’ at Boston University” (DeeZen Magazine, 12/13/22) by Ben Dreith:
"According to the team, the fossil-free status of the building was achieved by using a closed-loop geothermal heating system, solar panels and the optimized shading system provided by the louvres.
The geothermal heat pumps provide 300 tonnes of heating and cooling capacity for the building and no gas lines were connected.
‘The drive for energy efficiency enabled the shift from burning fossil fuels to using the thermal capacity of the earth as a batter for heating and cooling,’ said BU's associate VP for sustainability Dennis Carlberg [...].”