Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences wins 2025 Green GOOD DESIGN Award
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March 28, 2025
We’re pleased to share that the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University has won a 2025 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.
Presented by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, the Green GOOD DESIGN Award celebrates the world’s most important examples of sustainable design.
The University’s first LEED Platinum building, the Center was designed to meet the university’s Climate Action Plan’s goals, contribute to its carbon neutrality target by 2040, and contribute to Boston’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
No gas line is connected to the Center. It is operationally fossil-fuel-free with a closed-loop geothermal system that provides 90% of the building’s thermal capacity. The Center is heated and cooled by 31 geothermal wells dug 1,500 feet below ground — twice the height of Boston’s John Hancock Tower.
Other energy efficient strategies include a high-performance triple-glazed envelope with external sun shading louvres, enhanced heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, heat recovery, and daylighting, and occupancy controls for interior lighting.
Moreover, eight green roofs with native grasses, sedges, and wildflowers reduce the urban heat island effect, retain rainwater, prevent runoff, and connect people to nature.
Read more about the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
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