These are Green Buildings, so come on down! (This is the entrance to LEED EB Gold “One Boston Place” at 201 Washington St, Boston)…you may have noticed a few marquee properties “going green” in Boston. Well, it’s the right thing to do, high end tenant clients expect it, and if you don’t transition your old building with a serious green operating plan (like LEED EB) you are going to be missing the market in the future.
From Rick Fedrizzi, president of the US Green Building Council: “As of this month, cumulative square footage of LEED-certified existing buildings surpassed LEED-certified new construction for the first time. As the U.S. is home to more than 60 billion square feet of existing commercial buildings, most of which are energy guzzlers and water sieves, this trend serves as a promising indicator of our progress.”
This is a the continuation of a logical process to make buildings better, and is understandable considering the size of the existing building stock in the country. Heidi Schwartz at Today’s Facility Manager has a great post about the success of LEED-EB. Here’s another green building I’ve been to a few times recently: the Federal Reserve Building of Boston (Bostong Globe pic)
