BE+ Community Blog

Learn More about the Newest Building Standard–WELL

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow We are excited to invite the thought leaders and practitioners from our region to join us for a concise introduction to this groundbreaking new building standard, followed by a roundtable discussion. We are excited to welcome...

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Greenthink Case Study– Sustainability, Profits, and Bamboo

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow The following is an excerpt taken from Chapter 5, "Corporate Climate Change," of Green Think: How Profit Can Save the World, written by USGBC's co-founder and CEO, Rick Fedrizzi: If you've ordered a Dell laptop since 2009,...

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Newest Building Tech Forum Sponsor: The Green Engineer

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow We're pleased to announce that we will be hosting The Green Engineer as a panel sponsor for our upcoming Building Tech Forum on April 21st!  The firm is led by Chris Schaffner, P.E., LEED Fellow, who will also be one of our...

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Get LEED-certified Next Week!

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow Are you serious about your dedication to sustainable building? Come to our Green Associate course next week on Wednesday, April 13th, in our Boston office! Anybody that's serious about sustainable building should definitely...

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The Countdown Begins– BTF '16

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow Building Tech:   Join colleagues in the real estate industry who are passionate about solving the problems of building performance.      Gold Sponsors Boston Properties will share how they connect to the tech scene in Massachusetts...

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Don't Miss Your Chance to Apply for the EBie Awards!

By Ryan Duffy, Communications Fellow The EBie Awards are an annual opportunity for green building and sustainable pros from all over the nation.  The criteria for the competition are developing impressive sustainability solutions for existing buildings, from waste...

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450 Kendall St. Building Tour Recap

By Jessie Miller, Outreach Committee Chair On Thursday, March 24th, a group of green building enthusiasts toured 450 Kendall, a laboratory and office building, in Cambridge. This LEED Gold certified building joins the other five LEED certified buildings in BioMed...

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Boston Properties Sponsoring the Building Tech Forum

By Grey Lee Our 2nd Annual Building Tech Forum Join us as we welcome our keynote speaker: Ben Myers of Boston Properties. As Sustainability Manager for this major firm in the real estate industry, he has a great perspective on how good building projects come together....

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COP21 unConference: Mission Successful!

By Anthony Lucivero, Advocacy Fellow Yesterday marked another successful event for the Chapter with our COP21 Paris Climate Talks unConference!  The framing question of the day was "what can the USGBC MA and its community do going forward?"  For the first half of the...

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