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Fri, May 26

Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building

What better place to start than with MIT’s ‘energy hog,’ Building 46.  It’s home to the campus’ Brain and Cognitive Science Complex and lab space.  Having never addressed an entire building, the energy efficiency team is eager to get one under their belt.  The team went through every corner of the building and looked at every possible opportunity to save energy.  How can energy be used more efficiently in lab spaces, offices, lecture halls and classrooms?