BE+ Community Blog

The Weekly Bulletin to 8/8/14

By Grey Lee New office, new views:     The Chapter hasn't missed a beat. We are moving full steam ahead with vigorous programming for the rest of the year. We just had our August Board Meeting and discussed our upcoming website renovation - we have just selected a...

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LEED Project Showcase 2014: Your Sponsorship is Requested

By Grey Lee The following is a letter sent to over 150 eligible LEED Project Teams to encourage their participation in the Showcase. If you know anyone who's worked on a LEED-certified building in the past year and a half, please refer them to me so we can bring...

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USGBC MA Chapter

By Grey Lee USGBC MA Chapter has a new home!     We have officially started operations at the new CIC Boston coworking facility - at 50 Milk Street in Boston. We are now on the 19th floor with many of our colleagues from Space with a Soul. The new location is between...

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Chapter Volunteer Phoebe Beierle Nationally Recognized

By Grey Lee Phoebe Beierle, long-time Chapter volunteer and former Board President, has been recognized in the magazine gb&d - a 50,000 subscriber portal for all things in the green building & design world.   Congratulations to Phoebe for being acknowledged as one of...

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BEUDO Passes in Cambridge

By Grey Lee The City of Cambridge has passed the Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance. Read more about the vote here. We have resources for learning more about BEUDO and building energy benchmarking in general on our advocacy resources page. The USGBC MA Chapter...

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Tuesday, September 30: The 2014 MA LEED Project Showcase

By Grey Lee Are you ready for the biggest LEED show in New England? That's right, the 2014 LEED Project Showcase is coming right up in 2 months. This year we expect to be even bigger and better than last year. Did you catch that video we made? We anticipate over...

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The Weekly Bulletin to 7/25/14

By Grey Lee It's been a busy summer so far with the Chapter. We had a great time at Spaulding Rehab on the 17th - take a look at the pics for more on that!   Then on Wednesday our wonderful Emerging Professionals (EPMA) put together a great "Oceanview Summer...

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Fun at the Summer Social!

By Grey Lee On Wednesday July 24th, the Emerging Professionals (EPMA) hosted another great evening event bringing together a wide range of green building professionals. We took over half of the Atlantic Beer Garden and had a good time making connections.   Yeah:...

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Spaulding Rehab Tour & More!

By Grey Lee We had a great evening in Charlestown last Thursday night.   The view heading over to Charlestown from the Central Wharf Ferry Thank you to AtSite for sponsoring the event. Thank you to Perkins+Will, TCI, and Copley Wolff Design Group for facilitating the...

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