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Local Projects Use a "Green" Approach

BOSTON-A number of local institutions decide to design their new projects in environmentally friendly ways. Among those jumping on the "green" bandwagon are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Genetics Institute, TKT and even the newly constructed New England Patriots stadium in Foxborough.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on April 05, 2002

BOSTON-The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going green and it is in good company. MIT joins a number of local institutions that have decided to design their new developments in an environmentally-friendly way, including, The Genetics Institute and TKT in Cambridge and the new stadium for the New England Patriots in Foxborough, MA.

Developing a building in an ecologically sound manner was once a vague term that could mean anything from using recycled materials to putting in large windows. But recently, the US Green Building Council, a non-profit industry group, established the Leadership and Energy and Environmental Design or LEEDs standards to measure the sustainable design of a building.

As John Hess, director of sustainable design for Vanderweil Engineers, a locally based engineering firm that specializes in “green” design, tells GlobeSt.com there are several categories to building environmentally friendly. There is energy conservation, water conservation, interior design—which includes air quality and natural lighting, reducing light pollution, using recycled materials and minimizing the size of a parking lot to encourage the use of mass transportation. Furthermore, renovating an existing building is preferred to building from scratch in order to reduce urban sprawl.

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