Built Environment Plus

Every year, BE+ and the local green building community celebrate the bounty of achievements and innovative breakthroughs that are accelerating positive change in the built environment through the Green Building Showcase Awards Program. Help us propel the industry forward by submitting your exemplary work for award consideration. You just might have the next Green Building of the Year on your hands! ⬇ Download the Call for Entries: https://lnkd.in/dUmXTy_J

Join our team &/or spread the word... WE'RE HIRING! We are looking for the right candidate to communicate the importance of sustainable building practices to a multiple stakeholder audience. Our ability to communicate complicated concepts through images, infographics, and visual tools is essential to our traction on social media and other communication channels. Check out the Communications Associate position here: https://lnkd.in/eZcSEb2E Stay tuned to our job board for upcoming postings for Education Director and Community Engagement Associate: https://lnkd.in/eWZhMVyK

Excited to share that the next Built Environment Plus Emerging Professionals Roundtable will be taking place next week at Arup! 🗓️Date: August 15th, 5:30pm - 7:00pm 📍Location: Arup, 60 State Street, 10th fl. Boston, MA 02109 🔗Registration: https://lnkd.in/eUi6sGCQ This session features the following topics: - Energy Resilliency ⚡️ - Flood Resilinecy 🌊 - Multidisciplinary Design 🤝 Save the date, spread the word, and join us for another great night of networking and discussion over food and drinks. See you there! 🌱🏙️

TODAY! Join our #DecarbonizeExistingBuildingsAlliance roundtable on Big Picture Thinking about Decarbonization Planning. Dennis Carlberg, Chief Sustainability Officer & Associate Vice President for Climate Action at Boston University and Eri Furusawa, Director at HR&A Advisors will anchor the discussion and share their experience around decarbonization planning and implementation. What have you tried or are considering? What’s most useful and actionable? What do you wish you’d known sooner? The roundtable is scheduled 3:00-4:00 PM. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/ekCuACz5

Join BE+ and the Living Future Community as several experts such as Julia Africa, Noah Wilson-Rich, and Mark Winterer share their perspectives and inspire dialogue at our August 1st roundtable discussion on Pollinator Health and the Built Environment. Collectively, we will all dig into our impacts system-wide in discussing displaced ecosystems, pollinator health, green roofs, and much more. 🗓 Date: August 1st, 9:00am - 10:00am 🎟 Registration: https://lnkd.in/eaGPgyZK

#LEEDFellow Eddy Santosa lays out 5 key design principles for regenerative building practices. What do you think?

On Monday the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs alongside Lt. Governor Driscoll, Secretary Tepper, and Commissioner Mahony announced the 2nd round of funding under the Affordable Housing Decarbonization Grant Program which I administer. Across the two rounds of funding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has made over $50 million in grant funding to decarbonize, electrify, deep energy retrofit, and preserve over 1,300 affordable housing units across Massachusetts, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by over 675 annual mtons of CO2e. The Healey-Driscoll administration also announced an additional $40 million in funding for my Affordable Housing Decarbonization Grant program that will be used to further decarbonize and preserve Massachusetts' affordable housing stock. Congratulations to the 2nd round project awardees!

Nitsch Engineering is thrilled to announce that eight Nitsch projects were awarded by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and Built Environment Plus at the Northeast Embodied Carbon Summit, including the Embodied Carbon Reduction Challenge Grand Prize: New Construction Award for the Sustainable Engineering Laboratories project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst! Learn more at: https://loom.ly/b8lb6fo

Bridgeline Exteriors is proud to collaborate with PCA Architects, 2Life Communities, and Dellbrook | JKS on the award-winning Leland House project, recognized in the Built Environment Plus & MassCEC Internships Embodied Carbon Challenge! Our envelope expertise helped this innovative design achieve significant embodied carbon reduction, contributing to a collective impact of 25,000 metric tons CO2e saved across the competition. Bridgeline is committed to sustainable construction, specializing in Passive House, LEED, Net-Zero, and multifamily designs aligned with Better Buildings Initiative and Green & Resilient Retrofit programs. Stay tuned for more projects! https://lnkd.in/eVW4qiDJ #sustainability #construction #embodiedcarbon #collaboration #Bridgelineexteriors #2lifecommunities

We're thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the runner-up prize by Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) in their Embodied Carbon Reduction Challenge for our project, 80 East Berkeley Street in Boston. This innovative initiative by Built Environment Plus and MassCEC aims to reduce carbon emissions in new construction and building renovation, promoting sustainability in the built environment. Thank you to everyone who supported us on this journey! Congratulations to all the winners! https://bit.ly/3zK4XHF. #ElkusManfrediProject #EmbodiedCarbonChallenge #EmbidiedCarbonReductionChallenge #SustainabilityInDesign #80EastBerkeley