Tag: climatechange
ULI’s Greenprint Center Releases Report on Embodied Carbon
Washington – The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance has released a new report, “Embodied Carbon in Buildings Materials for Real Estate,” explaining how reducing embodied carbon in the construction process can save developers money and help mitigate the impacts of climate change. Greenprint is a worldwide alliance of leading real estate […]
Preserving Boston’s Waterfront: LAB/LSA’s Blue Necklace Project
by Emily Langner In episode 17 of the Build Better podcast, Anastasia welcomed Mark Reed and Stephanie Goldberg, founding principals of the Boston-based architecture and design firm, Lab / Life. Science. Architecture, Inc. (LAB/LSA). They talked about the threat climate change poses to Boston, Cambridge, and surrounding neighborhoods, and their proposal for a permanent solution […]
Climate Change And The New Normal
by Joseph A. Barra Climate change is rapidly becoming a lightning rod of exposure for the design community. This article explores the impact this phenomenon is having upon the way engineers practice and the standards by which they are judged. There are a variety of ways to describe climate change and its impact on the […]
SITES: Developing Sustainable Landscapes and Investing in the Greater Good
by Emily Langner Established almost two decades ago, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has become a well-known green building system, providing “a framework to create healthy, highly efficient and cost-saving green buildings.” More recently, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has added another program for evaluating and achieving sustainable design, the Sustainable Sites […]
The Rise (and Fall) of the Constructed Coastline
by Stephanie Goldberg News that Jakarta will be moving completely to a new city location in Borneo within the next 10 years should give us all pause. Though Boston is considered one of the better prepared cities when it comes to climate change induced storms and tides, rising sea levels pose a long term threat. […]
The Blue Necklace: Four Projects to Save Cambridge and the Back Bay
by Mark Reed and Stephanie Goldberg Facing the Charles River from MIT’s iconic dome, it is hard to imagine that the sea, more than two miles away, could submerge the campus in the next 100 years. It is easy to envision the river flooding, but few realize the actual threat to Cambridge lies in Boston’s original peninsular […]
The Blue Necklace
A Collaborative Design Exploration to Preserve Boston’s Existing Seafront From Rising Sea Levels While Promoting Urban Growth by Mark Reed and Stephanie Goldberg We now know that Boston will experience an existential threat from sea level rise within the century, or more catastrophically, in the nearer term. The question for future generations will be, “What did the […]
BSC Group Announces New Principals
Boston – BSC Group, a New England-based planning, design, and environmental science firm, has promoted David Biancavilla, PE, LEED AP, and Sean Ewald, PLS,to the position of principal. Biancavilla is a civil engineer with more than 20 years of experience managing projects ranging from public infrastructure improvements to campus enhancements for public and private colleges and […]
