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Worker bees follow queen to excellent seats 05.20.2012 By Art Jahnke Approximately 5,000 honeybees followed their queen onto Nickerson Field less than an hour before BU’s 139th Commencement exercises began. Photo by Tom Daley Roughly 5,000 unticketed guests swarmed onto Nickerson Field just 45 minutes before the scheduled start of BU’s 139th Commencement exercises, bringing [...]
» Read MoreIn the video above, watch Pamela Templer and her team in the field and in the laboratory, where they study the effects of climate change on New England forests. Photos by Melody Komyerov When Pamela Templer muses about silver white winters that melt into springs, she is thinking beyond the photogenic snowfall of show tunes [...]
» Read MoreIn the slideshow above, see photos of the faculty and staff housing complex at 85–87 St. Mary’s St., which will be BU’s first fully LEED-certified residence. Photos by Michael Hamilton BU’s first green residence nears completion By: Leslie Friday Remodeling a home can be a chore; remodeling nine requires angelic patience. And remodeling nine homes [...]
» Read MoreEco-friendly apartment renovation under way By Leslie Friday On a recent October morning, a milky haze of dust enveloped men in hard hats as they yanked nails from the basement rafters of 85-87 St. Mary’s Street. They began gutting the complex—home to BU faculty and staff—in late summer, removing all appliances, tearing up flooring, and [...]
» Read MoreEco-friendly apartment renovation under way By Leslie Friday On a recent October morning, a milky haze of dust enveloped men in hard hats as they yanked nails from the basement rafters of 85-87 St. Mary’s Street. They began gutting the complex—home to BU faculty and staff—in late summer, removing all appliances, tearing up flooring, [...]
» Read MoreBU’s Marketing and Communications’ Creative Services department has made a big step towards reducing the University’s carbon footprint thanks to Print Buyer Ryan Agate. Since he was hired the department has adopted more sustainable printing practices and hopes to make an impact University-wide. The biggest way that Creative Services is helping the environment is [...]
» Read MoreLow-E Ceiling at Walter Brown Arena (285 Babcock Street) Energy prices will no longer go through the roof. A low-emissivity ceiling will be installed above the ice rink, which could save up to 30% per year in ice-generation utility costs. The new ceiling will decrease the amount of radiant heat loss from structural members, preventing [...]
» Read MoreAlumni College to Debut in June Inaugural event will focus on sustainability Attention all alumni: BU is offering you a chance to go back to class—without the grades and the term papers. The Boston University Alumni Association (BUAA) is hosting its first Alumni College, a weekend-long educational experience, June 10–12. The subject is Sustainability in [...]
» Read MoreTen teams of students from several colleges came together on Saturday to compete in the first annual Smart Lighting Challenge, held at the Boston University School of Management. The winners of the competition were BU students Connor McEwen (EE’14), Felipe Spinel (SMG’12), Parker Fox (SMG’12) and Ahmad Nawasrah (SMG’12), who showcased their ideas for utilizing [...]
» Read MorePast efforts to design more sustainable buildings have largely focused on finding ways to reduce their energy consumption in isolation. Now a new, four-year project drawing on engineering and architecture faculty at Boston University and MIT, respectively, promises to deliver substantial carbon footprint and energy cost reductions not only to individual buildings, but also to [...]
» Read More» More TipsIf everyone at Boston University turned off one light, for one hour a day, for one year, we could save 733,475 kWh per year, the equivalent of removing 97 cars (or 1,161,000 pounds of CO2) from the road for an entire year.
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