First Geothermal Building

in Campus
March 17th, 2009

From the outside, 888 Commonwealth Avenue looks like an ordinary building. But 1,500 feet below the street is the core of Boston University’s first geothermal building, the home of BU’s International Education Center. Six wells harness the earth’s energy to warm and cool the 95,000-square-foot space—without the use of fossil fuels—and allow for a 3,500-square-foot roof garden in the heart of the city.