Last week the Emerging Professionals Committee organized a tour of The East Village at Northeastern University along with representatives from Northeastern and the architectural firm DiMella Shaffer.
The East Village is the newest residence hall at Northeastern University. Standing at 17 floors, it is the second tallest building on campus. It was developed on a Brownfield site, which was cleaned up and will provide a better environment for the area. The building can house over 700 students, and contains suites and apartment style rooms for the students. The building also contains a bike room, classrooms and an event space on the top floor. One of the main features of the building is the destination dispatch elevators.
The leaders in the sustainability field who comprise our chapter continue to excite and amaze us with the new strides they make in their work. Their ingenuity and tireless commitment to sustainability are what make our chapter such a wonderful community of professionals. Suffolk Construction is transforming the construction industry by building smart.
Over the last few years they have transformed themselves from a successful building construction management firm into an innovative, forward-thinking organization that has big ambitions—to change the construction industry as we know it. In fact, Suffolk’s vision is to transform the construction experience by building smart. To achieve this ambitious goal, they are committed to three corporate strategies: 1) Advance the power of innovation to provide answers; 2) Empower their people to create high-performing teams; and 3) Engage in the community to make a difference. At Suffolk they also understand that there are misconceptions about “being green”. Green is not just recycling, it’s not just climate change, and it’s not just LEED building. These are all components of sustainability, but they don’t tell the whole story. Ideally, sustainability is the convergence of consumer, business and environmental value.
We are also happy to have Suffolk as a Gold Sponsor for our Green Building Showcase and Awards next week!
Check out some of the sustainable projects they have created:
Greetings,
We want your project to shine at the Showcase! Register your green building to show off at this event on 10/1/15 at Harvard. You could win an award! The “early bird registration” ends tomorrow: Sign up for the event at this link. This is our biggest event of the year and always an incredible mix of professions, all passionate about building performance.
We are excited for the participation of our Showcase Sponsors: Harvard University Green Building Services, National Grid, Suffolk Construction, Skanska, View Glass, SemaConnect, Touloukian Touloukian, The Green Engineer, Chapman Construction, Tsoi/Kobus, Prellwitz Chilinski, Arrowstreet, RDK Engineering. (And how about your firm?)
Consider entering your awesome project in our Green Building Awards: for Innovation in Green Design and Exemplary Building Performance.
Starting later this month is our series of school-based service projects in theGreen Apple Day of Service. Thank you to our generous mini-grant sponsors: National Grid, Eversource, Boston Properties, NORESCO, Triumph Modular, TOTO, Re-Stream, ICF & HMFH! You can find a project and sign up to volunteer at the My Green Apple website – enter your zip code to search.
Please explore our events and gatherings opportunities below. These will help grow your professional network and are always time well spent.
As we transform the real estate market for improved environmental performance, we help bring our communities closer to sustainability.
