Event Recap: Built to Lead: Lessons in Building Decarbonization in New Construction
October 31, 2025
On Thursday, October 30th, A Better City convened an informative and inspiring second panel in the "Built to Lead: Lessons in Building Decarbonization and Resilience" series, showcasing the climate leadership of A Better City member companies and institutions in initiating innovative and replicable strategies in new construction.
We explored a variety of projects—passive housing developments, net zero office & residential spaces, an electric lab development, and methods of reducing embodied carbon from mass timber to insulation and lower carbon concrete from Sublime. Slides from the event can be found here. Thank you to our panelists for sharing their time and expertise:
- Rustom Cowasjee, Tishman Speyer —Enterprise Research Center (ERC), net zero residential building, hotel, and lab
- Heather Henriksen, Harvard University—Rubenstein Treehouse Conference Center using Mass Timber and low embodied carbon concrete
- David Gillespie, AvalonBay—Salem, MA, passive house development
- Christoph Stump, Trinity Financial—Bronx, NY, passive house development
- Yanni Tsipis, WS Development—Seaport, net zero carbon office building using Sublime cement and all-electric systems
- Randy Boles, Vertex—Seaport, 95% electric lab development
Please save the date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 for our next installment of the "Built to Lead" series with a focus on new technologies and opportunities. Registration will open soon!
