Green Building Services

Across Harvard, building managers and University leaders are responding to the urgent need to address climate change by renovating and constructing greener buildings that cut energy use and are healthier, happier places for staff to work and students to learn.

DePace Lab is located on the 4th floor of the Harvard Medical School’s Warren Alpert Building at 200 Longwood Avenue in Boston, MA. The renovation project achieved LEED-CI certification at the Gold level in July 2009. This was the first renovation of a wet lab at Harvard University to achieve a LEED certification, and shows the Medical School's strong committment to sustainability.

Achieving Gold certification under the LEED for Commercial Interiors version 2.0 rating system in June 2010, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Jacobsen Lab is an approximately 6,000 square foot organic chemistry lab located on the second floor of Mallinckrodt Laboratory Building at 12 Oxford Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) office fit-out on the fourth floor of Holyoke Center recently achieved Harvard’s 25^th LEED certification.  This 7,730 square foot space in the north wing of the building is home to the College’s Advising Program Office and the Program in General Education. 

McCulloch Hall, a renovation project undertaken in 2008 at the Harvard Business School, has recently achieved LEED for Commercial Interiors Platinum certification, the highest LEED certification level possible.

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.

Last November, Harvard University’s Building Energy Auditing Service completed a comprehensive energy assessment of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) campus. After completing an assessment at HDS’ Andover Library over the summer of 2009, the audit team won a competitive bid to perform an energy audit of the school's remaining six buildings.

One of the country’s newest green relocatable classrooms recently opened on Harvard’s campus.  For the next eighteen months, this modular school building will first house the Harvard Yard Child Care Center, and then the Oxford Street Daycare Cooperative, while their permanent locations in the Vanserg Building and Shannon Hall are being renovated.  This 5,700 square foot space is locat

In the early spring of 2009, Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) and the Office for Sustainability (OFS) joined forces to create a new Building Energy Auditing Service. This new service is expected to generate tremendous financial savings and assist the University in meeting its Greenhouse Gas Reduction (GHG) goals.

In October 2009, the Harvard Office for Sustainability’s Green Building Services (GBS) team completed an 8 hour Direct Digital Controls (DDC) training delivered by Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO). Digital controls and a Building Automation System (BAS) allow operators to control their buildings in an efficient manner.