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City Encourages Building 'Green' With Feasibility Study

BOSTON-The city is making an effort to promote "green" building and smart growth with its Green Building Feasibility Study. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative is providing a $100,000 grant to fund the program.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on March 24, 2004

BOSTON-As part of the city’s initiative to promote “green” building and smart growth, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is developing the Green Building Feasibility Study, a program that the city says will promote high-performance environmentally friendly development.

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative is providing a $100,000 grant to fund the program, which will award five development projects the funds to consider “green” building opportunities during the early phases of their project planning. “We’re saying take a moment to consider green strategies,” Meredith Baumann, a spokesperson for the BRA, tells GlobeSt.com. “To make it more palatable, we got the grant.” The grant also affords the BRA the opportunity to investigate the impacts of city regulatory and permitting processes on green building and to consider new procedures and policy.

“The research is showing that building green is costly up front but has savings down the road especially from a heating and cooling perspective,” She notes that the mayor convened a task force on green building this summer to explore strategies to get the concept on developer’s radars. Baumann points out that there are a number of green building projects in the city such as the Manulife Headquarters on the South Boston Waterfront, the Nature Center in Mattapan, and the soon to be opened solar-powered Visitors Center on Spectacle Island.

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