{"id":26843,"date":"2022-02-09T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=26843"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:31:59","slug":"countering-climate-change-annual-report-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/countering-climate-change-annual-report-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We have already begun preparing for climate change with two recent, significant construction projects on campus.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:257}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Scheduled to complete construction early in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/projects\/center-for-computing-data-sciences-annual-report-2021\/\">the center<\/a> has been designed for climate resilience. The first floor has been built 1.25\u2032 above the \u201celevation of resilience.\u201d Entry points vulnerable to flooding are confined to a small area where temporary barriers can mitigate flood risk. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences &amp; Engineering<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Even before the CAP was approved in December 2017, the University began preparing for climate change in new building planning. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/projects\/rajen-kilachand-center-for-integrated-life-sciences-engineering-annual-report-2021\/\">Kilachand Center<\/a>, which opened in fall 2017, was designed and built without a basement. The mechanical and electrical rooms occupy the second and third floors, raised above ground level to avoid damage from flooding in extreme weather events.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have already begun preparing for climate change with two recent, significant construction projects on campus.\u00a0 Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences\u00a0 Scheduled to complete construction early in 2023, the center has been designed for climate resilience. The first floor has been built 1.25\u2032 above the \u201celevation of resilience.\u201d Entry points vulnerable to flooding are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26843"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27147,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26843\/revisions\/27147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}