{"id":10931,"date":"2016-11-04T17:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/logan-airport\/"},"modified":"2016-11-04T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:00:43","slug":"flying-somewhere-boston-airports-plan-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/flying-somewhere-boston-airports-plan-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Somewhere? Boston Airport\u2019s Plan for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

When super-storm Sandy hit NYC and caused floods in LaGuardia airport, officials at Logan\u2019s payed close attention. Surrounded by water from three sides, Boston\u2019s Logan airport is also very much exposed to the same weather impacts. Last year, officials announced a multi-million-dollar plan to make the airport more resilient to climate change and more environmentally sustainable. [3]<\/p>\n

In its plan, the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), owner of Logan airport, focused on 10 resource areas: energy and greenhouse gas emissions, water conservation, community, employee and passenger well-being, materials, waste management and recycling, resiliency, noise abatement, air quality improvement, ground access and connectivity, water quality\/storm water and Natural resources. [4]<\/p>\n

In this report, I will elaborate\u00a0on three of these areas:<\/u><\/p>\n

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  1. Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/li>\n
  2. Materials, Waste management and recycling<\/li>\n
  3. Resiliency<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/u><\/p>\n

    Since 2004, energy use intensity (Kbtu per square foot) at Logan Airport has decreased by approximately 20.5 %. This progress can be attributed to energy efficiency improvements and increased use of renewable energy. As part of this effort, heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment has been replaced by newer energy equipment.\"logangraf\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Moreover, during the past year, approximately 900,000 kWh of solar and wind power were generated at several buildings and facilities at the Airport. (enough to power 125 typical Massachusetts homes for one year).[5]<\/p>\n

    Materials, Waste management and recycling<\/u><\/p>\n

    As part of the new plan in 2015, the airport set aggressive targets for recycling rates: 20% by 2016, 40% percent by 2018 and 60% by 2020. To meet these goals management chose to develop and monitor a few key performance indicators.<\/p>\n