![]() “Its real value is on the issue of replication. “Anything that is that groundbreaking, pun intended, on its own, it’s a drop in the bucket,” Chretien said. The BU building could serve as a good laboratory to study maintenance and operations of these geothermal systems for future construction projects.Ī view on the 18th floor of the geothermal piping for water supply and return for heat exchange. At least that’s what Green Energy Consumers Alliance chief Larry Chretien hopes. Nonetheless, there will be plenty of lessons to be learned. “Many city buildings don’t have that luxury.” “We own the alleyway, we had a place to drill them,” said Walt Meissner, BU’s associate vice president of operations. ![]() In this case, only four of the 31 wells are actually under the building the rest are under an adjacent alley. There’s another challenge to going geothermal: finding a place to drill the wells. “A developer may consider it differently they’re going to flip it.” “Something that has a decade or more payback, we can consider,” Brown said. This computing and data sciences center won’t be stuffed with servers nearly all of the computing will be done on servers housed 90 miles away, in Holyoke, in a hydroelectric-powered complex BU shares with several other universities.īrown expects the $305 million building’s geothermal system will pay for itself within a decade, in terms of energy savings. The electric bill to heat a building of this size would be astronomical, if not for the geothermal wells that rely on the earth’s relatively constant temps to provide heat in the winter and to remove it in the summer. The Wu administration also wants Boston to be one of 10 communities in the state to be allowed to impose bans on fossil-fuel hookups for most new construction.Īn interior view of the main stairway to the lobby. Within a few years, Boston officials will start requiring that systems in large and midsized buildings gradually move toward net-zero emissions. ![]() “It’s not the optics, but the realization it can be done.” “It’s a tremendous moment,” said Joe Curtatone, president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council. The completion of the structure, built by Suffolk Construction and designed by KPMB Architects, represents an important milestone for state and city efforts to push building systems toward the point in which they do not result in an increase in carbon emissions. BU leaders say it’s also the biggest geothermal building they’re aware of to go up in a dense urban environment anywhere in the United States. Ryan/Globe StaffĪs it opens to professors and staff this month, and to students next month, the tower will be by far the largest net-zero carbon building in Boston, and probably all of New England. After receiving financing from Bank of America in 2013, sales resumed in 2013 at a brisk pace.Boston University's new Center for Computing & Data Sciences will be the greenest tower in the city. The condos originally went on the market back in 2008, but the project stalled when the financial crisis hit. This is one of the last remaining units being sold by Alexico Group and Hines, the developers. More: Manhattan Prices Close to Record High Amid Signs of a Cooling Market The price of the 5,489 square-foot, five-bedroom penthouse, which boasts two terraces with views of the city, the Statue of Liberty, and the Hudson River, was increased from $25.5 million when it went on the market in 2013 and was being sold off of floor plans. ![]() The glass-stacked building has been dubbed the Jenga tower due to its unusual design reminiscent of the wooden-block game. 1 contract last week was a penthouse with a $34.5 million asking price at TriBeCa’s 56 Leonard Street, a 60 story, 145-unit condo built like a glass obelisk. A penthouse at Manhattan’s "Jenga" tower topped the list of most expensive sales in the city last week.Īccording to Olshan Realty’s latest snapshot of Manhattan’s luxury housing market, the No. ![]()
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