Mark your calendars: HUBweek, Boston’s festival for the future founded by The Boston Globe, Harvard University, MIT, and Mass. General Hospital, returns this fall, October 10-15, with plans to transform Boston’s City Hall Plaza into a first-of-its-kind festival site. Over 150 events are open now for registration, including an event at Payette on October 10 leveraging sustainable design to achieve social equity. Join Boston’s innovators this fall to discover the ideas shaping your tomorrow by registering for the event today!
Leveraging Sustainable Design to Achieve Social Equity
Sustainable design is typically defined by the triple bottom line – work that provides environmental, social and economic benefits. The City of Boston faces challenges in regards to sustainably designing the future – it’s a coastal city at great risk for sea level rise. Planning for a resilient, sustainable future impacts everyone who lives and works in the city. While those in the design and construction industry have direct ties to the city’s sustainable future, every individual has an impact on our environment. Additionally, Boston has the biggest economic disparity between racial groups in the 100 biggest cities in the United States. Because of the urgency in the City of Boston to address sustainable design, resiliency and social equity, this event focuses on the intersection of these issues. Hear from experts in the fields of sustainable design and equitable practice. Through a series of interactive exercises, you can develop your own strategies for bringing sustainable design and social equity to the forefront of city-wide dialogue and action. Every individual has an impact on our environment and this event focuses on each person as a steward of a sustainable, resilient and equitable future for the City of Boston.
Speakers:
Andrea Love, Director of Building Science
Karen Robichaud, Director of Creative Engagement
Details:
Tuesday, October 10 | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Payette Office
290 Congress Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
HUBweek Schedule:
- October 10th-11th: Spoke Events, at venues throughout Greater Boston
- October 12th: The HUB opens – HUBweek’s centralized festival site on City Hall Plaza
- October 12th-14th: Future Forum, HUBweek’s 3-day ideas festival
- October 12th-14th: Immersion, a live arts exhibition
- October 14th: Demo Day
Learn more at hubweek.org/events. Hope to see you there!
Cape Cod Community College’s Frank and Maureen Wilkens Science and Engineering Center is a net-positive energy building designed to transform the heart of campus.
The project approaches sustainability through a holistic and global approach, implementing a range of moves including passive solar shading overhangs, air-source heat pumps, high performance materials with low embodied carbon and the expansion of the range of thermal comfort and lighting power density. Combined with on-site photovoltaics, the project achieves net-positive energy use.
The project’s thermally modified wood rainscreen façade is a study of the modern expression of vernacular Cape Cod architecture while reducing embodied carbon. Early lifecycle assessments identified the immense carbon savings of wood over fiber cement. The design team did not stop there, furthering reductions by peeling back unnecessary finishes like carpet and ceilings. Together, these decisions enabled a 19% reduction in embodied carbon.
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