When this year’s class of MBA students arrived on campus at the MIT Sloan School of Management in August, they were welcomed with a brand new building. The 215,000-square-foot, $142 million building is the newest, largest and greenest building ever constructed at MIT Sloan.
With more than 200 offices and classrooms and space for group study and other activities, the building will allow all MIT Sloan faculty members to be based in a single structure for the first time in decades, the school reports.
E62, as the new building is called, “will by design further enhance the collaboration among students and faculty that is a hallmark of MIT Sloan,” MIT Sloan Dean David Schmittlein said in a statement. “Further, E62’s use of sustainable technology in both construction and operation is consistent with MIT Sloan’s emphasis on sustainability as good policy and good business,” he continued.
Indeed, E62 is now the greenest building on the entire MIT campus and features a range of sustainable features, including active chilled beams for cooling, automatic window shades in offices, a green roof and an irrigation system connected to a central weather station for minimization of watering.
Moreover, more than 90 percent of the debris from a structure torn down to make way for E62 was diverted away from landfills. For example, major elements of the garden that had been in front of the demolished building, including trees weighing up to 17 tons, were relocated to a new park-like area on campus.
E62 will be formally dedicated in May as part of MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2011.
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