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Our Green building and our green policies are important!

  • 175 ultra new LED lights have been installed in the lounge ceiling, and over all Beacon Grille tables. These super-saver lights use only five watts per fixture.
  • One thousand and twenty Photovoltaic Solar Panels on the roof of our 1,000 car parking garage provide solar power to common areas of the entire building.
  • Hot water for Beacon Grille will soon be preheated with glycol-filled Solar Panels on the roof, which operate year-round.
  • Many of The Beacon Grille's kitchen appliances, including refrigerators, dishwashers, and ovens are Energy Star rated.
  • Cooking grease is recycled and converted into green biodiesel fuel.
  • The Beacon Grille recycles all glass bottles and aluminum cans.
  • Rain water collected underground in a 7,000 gallon tank is used for occassionally watering trees and shrubs. There are no areas of lawn grass requiring underground sprinklers.
  • Our on-site bus stop accesses MBTA service via Woburn, Winchester and Medford Square to Wellington Station.
  • Dedicated indoor and outdoor bicycle racks, storage, and preferred parking for low-emission vehicles.
  • With continuous glass curtainwalls and ribbon windows, the restaurant and most client suites are awash in sunlight throughout the workday.
  • All of Beacon Grille's walk-in refrigerators have water cooled compressors. These compressors are directly connected to the building's, central heating system, and they help heat the entire building in season.
  • Operable windows, plus upper floor balconies and energy recovery fresh-air ventilators provide improved air quality.
  • Recycled steel played a major role in the superstructure framework for the entire building.
  • Extreme care to recycling principles led to the reprocessing of more than a 1,000 tons each of scrap metals, wood, and plasterboard throughout the construction of TradeCenter 128.
  • HVAC units throughout the complex utilize the very latest technology to reduce the carbon foot print of this truly extraordinary energy-saving building.
  • High performance tinted and reflective glass play a major role in conserving power throughout the complex.
  • Energy-efficient design and construction, high-performance glass, and premium efficiency HVAC and lighting systems.

"We Buy Locally" Policy
Additionally, Beacon Grille supports our local economy by patronizing locally owned and operated businesses whenever possible. In addition to buying locally, we also hire locally. Cummings Properties has a very strong policy of going to great effort to hire people who live in Woburn or other very nearby communities whenever possible.

 

As a "Top 10" Boston restaurant, Beacon Grille steakhouse must provide an overwhelming sense of quality and value, and local products from local people help. Not only in our delightful dining room, but in our reserved function rooms - and even for our take out meals, our food quality, our service and our prices must be among the best, or our customers will never get to become our friends as well.

On-site Cogeneration of electric and thermal energy
Although TradeCenter 128 was designed by Cummings Properties' own professional staff of architects, engineers, and LEED professionals as a model of green technology, Beacon Grille itself has one very green, component, unique to it. All of Beacon Grille's large walk-in coolers and freezers have highly efficient water-cooled compressors, recycling most of the heat they give off, much of every year, with substantial savings in natural gas.

"Cogeneration", also known as Combined Heat and Power, is a recognized engineered solution to reduce energy costs. By using the heat that accompanies the production or use of electricity from fossil fuels, the cogenerated heat or electric is "Green Power," generated as part of the system that can be as high as 70 percent efficient. This is twice the efficiency of electric production at many utility power plants.*

At TradeCenter 128, the complex's heating and cooling is provided by several very large roof-top machines, consistent with the Gold level LEED standard.** Heated or cooled water is then delivered from these roof-mounted chillers, throughout the complex, to form a gigantic water source heat pump system.

Because all of these large walk-in coolers and freezers are equipped with water cooled compressors, the heat they give off is simply transferred into the always circulating water. In summer it is processed out through enormous cooling towers in the roof. In winter, however, that heat from the walk-in freezers and coolers is still dissipated into the water, but it is then used to help heat that water for all of the remaining portions of the complex.

This type of green technology will be really efficient only in situations where there is a simultaneous need for both electric and thermal energy. On the other hand, green Power from more than 1000 photovoltaic panels on the roof of our main parking garage, is immediately used as soon as it is generated to significantly reduce or carbon footprint year-round.

*WSP Flack & Kurtz
**Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)

 
 
 
 
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