BU Combines Innovation and Sustainability
Photo by David L. Ryan, Boston Globe
From its zigzag design to carbon neutrality, Boston University’s 19-story, state-of-the-art Center for Computing & Data Sciences makes headlines with its environmental design and academic innovation.
In his report for The Boston Globe, reporter Jon Chesto details BU’s latest addition along with the development’s strides towards sustainability.
Excerpted from “BU’s ‘Jenga Building’ is coming together above the Charles River” (The Architect’s Newspaper, 3/27/22) by Jon Chesto:
"The Suffolk Construction-built edifice will be one of the greenest towers in the city. At about 350,000 square feet, a BU spokesman said, the $305 million computing center will be the largest carbon-neutral building in Boston.
The unusual design can be attributed to KPMB Architects, a Toronto-based firm selected to fashion a building that would ‘make a statement' and ‘mark the dynamic change in the University,’ as president Robert Brown told BU Today in 2018 [...]”