Find out why PAYETTE is participating in the 2030 Commitment in the Building Green feature, 2030 Culture: Six Selfish Reasons to Commit. Our Director of Building Science, Andrea Love discusses the reasoning and the positive impact the commitment created for our architectural practice.
It's been a focus and refinement of how we've been doing things. Bit by bit, we're working our way down.
Andrea Love, AIA, LEED Fellow, Prinicipal/Director of Building Science
Andrea also explains that lab projects over the last decade at PAYETTE have shown a huge downward trend in energy consumption which occurred in two major steps. The first was the introduction of chilled beams and the second step has been a gradual whittling away of energy use over the five years of the 2030 Commitment.
At PAYETTE, we have hospitals and research labs, the most intensive building types out there, so we have a particular responsibility to minimize our impact. The nice thing about 2030 is setting these goals. If there's a goal, we can try to meet it.
Andrea Love, AIA, LEED Fellow, Principal/Director of Building Science
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The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.