The engagement of A Better City and our member companies in this process was instrumental in finding a solutions-oriented approach to a critical piece of combating climate change.
Boston officials set a schedule for large building owners to begin complying with new regulations designed to halve carbon emissions by 2030.
Developers and landlords face difficult decisions about how to finance work to to control energy costs and comply with decarbonization regulations. Mike Doty and Nuveen Green Capital say they can offer an affordable solution.
Is another sustainability regulation coming down the line for Boston developers? Traditional commercial building materials such as steel and concrete are drawing scrutiny from regulators as a potential contributor to the building sector’s carbon footprint.
Commercial building owners in Greater Boston face immediate decisions on strategies to comply with new regulations on emissions, decarbonization and energy efficiency.
Robert Cooper’s Worcester proptech startup Embue says it can predict which of the “hundreds or thousands” of Boston apartments that will have to start paying carbon emissions fees in the next few years.
As new regulations prod the building sector toward decarbonization, they could align landlords’ and tenants’ financial incentives to help reduce commercial real estate’s climate impact.
Newton-based Chapman Construction is leading by example in setting a goal of shrinking its own carbon footprint under an initiative being led by John Hyde.
Dyer Brown architect Laurel Christensen’s mission is to wean commercial tenants away from a throwaway mentality when designing and building out interior spaces.
The all-electric approach is often not only sound environmentally but also a good marketing approach, with sustainability increasingly important to younger buyers and tenants.
Winthrop Center’s energy-efficient design is setting a new standard, and helping it attract anchor tenants, too.
Proponents in Maine of a stalled $1 billion energy corridor that sought to bring Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid asked the state’s high court to breathe new life into the project Tuesday.
Today, the city of Boston has some of the most ambitious climate goals in the country, with institutions across the city grappling with ways to maximize energy and financial efficiency during a pivotal moment in the ongoing national discourse on the environment.
A referendum in Maine spells big trouble for both office building owners and developers in Boston as they scramble to meet the city’s tough, new carbon emissions rules.
Chris Gray looks at commercial properties through an energy efficiency lens to help Boston-based Taurus Investment Holdings evaluate potential acquisitions, at a time when landlords are creating efficiencies through operational upgrades, and reducing their exposure for capital upgrades.
When operating a commercial building, whether offices, apartments or something else, a sudden, massive capital expense is the last thing anyone needs. But many class B and C building owners in Boston will find themselves in that situation as the city tightens the screws on carbon emissions.
Reducing emissions from buildings and making them more energy efficient will be two focal points of the state’s efforts to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and lawmakers last week rallied their colleagues to quickly advance legislation to direct the specifics of those efforts, especially around large buildings.
Based on input from the business community, Boston’s new requirements for carbon neutrality in the city’s commercial buildings are clearer and more achievable. But hard work remains to make BERDO 2.0 succeed.
The city of Boston’s goal of reducing carbon emissions will impose new energy-efficiency requirements on landlords of large buildings in the wake of a city council vote.
