Project name: Center for Computing & Data Sciences at BU
Project overview: Boston University’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences is a landmark for the university and for Boston. Built on a compact urban site as a vertical campus, it brings together 3000 students, faculty, and staff from departments that had previously been scattered around the university, giving them a collaborative, flexible environment for research, study, and teaching. The largest, sustainable, and operationally fossil fuel-free building in the city, the Center transforms the skyline, meets laudable sustainability goals, and prioritizes human-centered design and interconnectivity.
Project location: Boston, Massachusetts
Firm name: KPMB Architects
Completion: 2022
Client: Boston University
Jury comments: This is a truly monumental building designed to push the envelope in expression, sustainability and innovation. The jury appreciates the project and team’s ability to merge so many forward looking goals into a single edifice that will be a landmark project for decades to come.
Images/Photographer(s): Nic Lehoux, Tom Arban MEP,IT: BR+A Consulting Engineers Structural: Entuitive + LeMessurier Consultants Building envelope: Entuitive Cost: Turner & Townsend Landscape: Richard Burck Associates Inc. Lighting: Dot Dash Climate engineering: Transsolar LEED: The Green Engineer Civil: Nitsch Engineering Inc Elevator: Soberman Engineering Fire and life safety, accessibility: Jensen Hughes Geotechnical, geothermal: Haley & Aldrich Acoustics/a.v.: Acentech Environmental engineers: RWDI Inc Façade access: Learch Bates Hardware: Robbie McCabe Consulting Food services: Ricca Design Studios Signage: Entro Communications Specifications: Brian Ballantyne Specifications Construction management: Suffolk Construction Owner’s project manager: Compass/Vertex
