Articles by Scott Van Voorhis

UMass Chan Medical School is betting big on geothermal heating and cooling to slash the greenhouse gas emissions from the newest addition to its Worcester campus, a $325 million research and education complex.

Winthrop Center recently became the first tower in the city to insert an unusual concrete foundation known as a “sky mat.” 

A pair of projects in Boston, one a skyline-topping tower, the other an affordable housing complex, are poised to put the Boston area on the map when it comes to environmentally sustainable design.

Rule that requires buildings 20,000 sq ft and larger to become carbon neutral by 2050 worries some owners

Massachusetts transportation officials will pursue plans to tear down a 1960s MassPike viaduct as part of the massive highway reconfiguration and redevelopment project.

Work recently started on a $3.6-million overhaul and modernization of the Watershops Pond Dam in Springfield, Mass.