It was a perfect autumn day for the Yale Divinity School (YDS) Living Village Ground Healing Ceremony. IES team member Carlye Woodard was on hand for the well-attended event, which launched the construction phase of this much anticipated project with discussion and questions, prayer and recognition, as well as food and drinks to mark the celebration. YDS Dean Gregory E. Sterling suggested, with a playful nod to Joni Mitchell’s iconic lyrics, that the school is endeavoring to tear up a parking lot and build a paradise.
Charlestown’s Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment project, which broke ground in June 2023 after an eight-year community planning process, promises 21st century comfort, energy efficiency and carbon reducing performance in its new mixed-income residential community. Located in an historic waterfront neighborhood, Boston’s oldest, much of this 1940s-era federal public housing site had fallen into disrepair. Now, in a public-private partnership, the team of Leggat McCall Properties and Joseph J. Corcoran Co., in partnership with the Boston Housing Authority and the Charlestown Resident Alliance, has developed and launched a $1.4 billion plan to replace 42 aging buildings with 15 new residential buildings, plus retail and community space. To strengthen the sense of community, the project features extensive green spaces and improved connections to the surrounding area.
NORTH ADAMS, MA—The recent East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment underscored the peril that chemicals such as vinyl chloride—used to make PVC pipe, wire and cable coatings, and myriad other products—pose for communities across the U.S. as well as throughout the manufacturing supply chain, potentially menacing company workers, their fenceline neighborhoods, builders and installers. At the same time, colleges, corporations and property owners recognize that buildings with fewer chemical toxins are not only healthier, but good business—attracting students, employees and tenants while reducing occupant illness and absenteeism, and lowering hazmat liability during renovations and demolition.
The 2022 BE+ Green Building Showcase Award Winners
Both IES’s Charley Stevenson and Matt Root were honored to attend the BE+ 2022 event, which was hosted at Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).
Read More to learn about this years award winners and see all of the Green Buildings showcased.