Boston’s Largest All-Electric Building
Photo by Gary Higgins, Boston Business Journal
BU’s newest addition, the Center for Computing & Data Sciences, is a 19-story tower boasts a geothermal heat pump system to power the building’s electricity.
In his report for the Boston Business Journal, senior reporter Greg Ryan highlights the central features of Boston’s largest all-electric building.
Excerpted from “BU is building the city's largest all-electric building” (Boston Business Journal, 9/14/22) by Greg Ryan:
"To heat and cool a 300-foot-tall, 345,000-square-foot tower using the earth below the building, you need to drill some deep holes. How deep? Take the height of the Hancock tower, then double it [...]”