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Tag: LEED
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Nation & World
Study opens door to better sleep, work, health
Harvard study is the first to show that working in high-performing, green-certified buildings can improve employee decision-making using objective cognitive simulations.
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Nation & World
Looking indoors to health
Harvard’s University Construction Management Council is celebrating its 10th year and forging ahead on projects such as acting to remove flame retardants and other toxic chemicals from building interiors.
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Nation & World
Harvard breaks LEED record
This fall Harvard reached a major milestone in its commitment to sustainability with its 100th LEED certified space. Harvard now has more certified building projects than any other higher education institution in the world, according to the U.S. Green Building Council.
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Nation & World
No loss of character in new-look Dunster
Dunster House opened its doors Saturday as students moved in for the first time since its renewal. It took 400 workers more than a year to complete Dunster’s 183,060 square feet of updates and additions.
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Nation & World
The greenest lab, up and running
The renovation of Harvard’s Sherman Fairchild Building may have seemed inconsequential to the casual observer because the exterior barely changed. However, as a result of a two-year project to accommodate the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department (SCRB), the interior has been transformed into one of the University’s greenest and most efficient laboratory spaces.
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Nation & World
A green building milestone
As of this week, Harvard became the first higher education institution to complete 50 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for construction projects around campus, a process 10 years in the making.
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Nation & World
Class act
Two floors of classrooms in Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are the first in the world to win the highest LEED-CI rating.
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Nation & World
How to engineer change
Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences makes rapid progress in reaching long-term energy-saving goals.
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Nation & World
Double dose of good green news
Harvard and City of Cambridge officials on Tuesday (June 19) used the penultimate day of spring to celebrate a double dose of sunny news.
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Nation & World
Harvard takes the LEED in green buildings
If you could fly in a small plane over Harvard, looking down wouldn’t tell you much about the University’s sustainable buildings.
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Nation & World
Nathan Gauthier
He’s only 31, but Nathan Gauthier has had an adventurous life so far. He spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, studied red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, shot underwater video for NASA, and worked as a fisheries biologist in Washington state and Hawaii.
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Nation & World
Meghan Duggan
Meghan Duggan knows her way around sustainability. The marine engineer with a master’s degree in facilities management can talk easily about kilowatt hours, solar panels, cogeneration, renewable wood, and high-efficiency lights.