Building Managers

Harvard Medical School (HMS) unveils an online tool that will help HMS students, staff and faculty to monitor energy use.

As University President Drew Faust stated during her announcement of the Harvard-wide Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goal, “Taken together, the habits, the attitudes, and the creativity of every one of us have the potential to make a great difference, not just for Harvard in the here and now, but for the larger world and its future well-being [...].

Harvard Business School (HBS) sustainability efforts have caught the notice of quite a few people around campus...

Kevin Bright, Jessica Parks, and Jesse Foote have just completed a two-day hands-on training on Energy Modeling. This course, held at the Green Roundtable’s Nexus center in Boston, taught a step-by-step procedure for completing building simulation analyses using the eQUEST modeling software.

Harvard Medical School now has two new hybrid Zipcars, the Prius “Pirrello” and Altima “Alley.” They are located in the Palace Parking lot between 180 and 164 Longwood Avenue. Harvard faculty, staff, students, post-docs and others working in the Longwood area are eligible to receive a discount on Zipcar memberships by signing up at zipcar.com/masco.

The FAS community has noticed a change in their bathrooms- the addition of dual flush handles to many toilets and super low flow aerators on the sinks. The FAS Green Program and the FAS Office of Physical Resources and Planning have been working over the past year to change about 900 sinks and 675 toilets in FAS bathrooms campus-wide.

Did you know that Harvard School of Public Health has an EcoOpportunity Team that meets monthly in order to identify environmental sustainability-related issues and improve resource conservations practices? Do you know if your department is represented?

Achieving Gold Certification under LEED for Commercial Interiors version 2.0 in November 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Schreiber Lab is a 1,700 square foot Chemistry Lab located on the first floor of the Naito Chemistry Building at 12 Oxford Street in Cambridge, MA.

For the first time ever, the HBS Green Living program coordinated with HBS Operations to offer students a tour of campus energy conservation projects. In 2008 President Faust announced the University’s greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) goal; to reduce GHG emissions 30% below a 2006 baseline by 2016, including growth. HBS has been hard at work and has since achieved a 27% GHG reduction!

Two waste-reduction pilots are currently underway in HMS labs. The first involves a collaboration between HMS Campus Operations and Environmental Health & Engineering, the EH&S group in the HIM & NRB buildings.