MIT Green Building more of a Liability..
By: CocoAppleStore
Old and new buildings in cities that don’t work as the designers intended tend to be a hassle for facility managers. With in-house maintenance personnel and engineering departments spending their days working with these problems, managers who faces these tough problems tend to confer with their peers belonging to other organizations whose buildings have similar problems. But in high-profile, architecturally distinct buildings, in-house managers and crews are generally on their own when it comes to figuring a solution on fixing what the designer wanted and then making the building operate properly.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s green building is the latest case. A three-year-old, $300 million building designed by Frank Gehry is causing quite a variety of problems according to MIT Officials. They alleged that the building leaks persistently, it has problems with drainage and molds and fungi growing on its exterior. In addition, accumulated snow and ice fell from window boxes and other areas of its roofs, obstructing emergency exits and causing damage.