CAMBRIDGE, MA--The newest, largest, and greenest building ever constructed at the MIT Sloan School of Management is now open to receive this year’s class of about 400 MBA students from the United States and 50 nations across the globe.

Overlooking the Charles River, the 215,000 sf, $142 million building, which includes more than 200 offices, classrooms, and space for group study and other activities, will enable all MIT Sloan faculty members to be based in one building for the first time in decades.

The structure, bearing the typically MIT name of E62, “will by design further enhance the collaboration among students and faculty that is a hallmark of MIT Sloan,” said MIT Sloan Dean David C. Schmittlein. “Further, E62’s use of sustainable technology in both construction and operation is consistent with MIT Sloan’s emphasis on sustainability as good policy and good business.”

E62 is now the “greenest” building on the entire MIT campus. More than 90 percent of the debris from a structure torn down to make way for it was diverted away from landfills. Major elements of the garden that had been in front of the demolished building, including trees weighing up to 17 tons, were relocated to a new park-like area on campus.

Among its many sustainable features the building has active chilled beams for cooling, automatic window shades in offices, a green roof, and an irrigation system connected to a central weather station for minimization of watering. E62 will be formally dedicated in May as part of MIT's 150th anniversary celebration in 2011.

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