{"id":1643,"date":"2019-10-02T13:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:32:34","slug":"1643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2019\/10\/02\/1643\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Reasons BU\u2019s Center for Computing &#038; Data Sciences Building Will Be Its Most Sustainable Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 19 stories tall and nearly 350,000 square feet, the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/data-sciences-center\/\">BU Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences<\/a>, to be built at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Granby Street, will be one of the biggest buildings in the University\u2019s 180-year history.<\/p>\n<p>And with geothermal wells, state-of-the-art shading, unusually thick windows, and ultracool staircases that invite people to climb them, among other features, it will also be<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/data-sciences-center\/when-sustainability-infuses-design-seven-cool-features.html\">the University\u2019s most sustainable, energy-efficient building ever<\/a>. The building will be 100 percent free of fossil fuels, an effort that aligns with the University\u2019s broader<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2017\/bu-trustees-approve-aggressive-climate-action-plan\/\">Climate Action Plan<\/a>, which aims to reduce BU\u2019s carbon emissions to zero by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is on the cutting edge to lead the state and region in sustainability,\u201d says Dennis Carlberg, associate vice president for university sustainability&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019-10-02: BU Today &#8211; On the sustainability of the Center for CDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}