Green Options » Harvard http://greenoptions.com/tag/harvard Posts tagged 'Harvard' Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Platinum LEED 19th Century Building http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/03/27/platinum-leed-19th-century-building/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/03/27/platinum-leed-19th-century-building/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:52 +0000 Philip Proefrock http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/03/27/platinum-leed-19th-century-building/ Blackstone Harvard University LEED Platinum buildingHarvard University has achieved several firsts with the recent renovation of an old power plant into an office building. It is the first LEED Platinum certified university building renovation, as well as Harvard’s first Platinum building. More interestingly though, it is the first Platinum building built before the turn of the the century–last century, that is.  Further, the university was able to complete this building without an increase in the up-front construction costs.

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