Gilbane Student Housing Project Earns Innovator Award, LEED Silver Certification

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Gilbane Development Company’s 257 Thayer Street student housing community, located in Providence, Rhode Island, earned multiple accolades for its sustainable features and innovative approach to student housing development—including LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, as well as winning the Student Housing Business Innovator Award for “Best New Development under 300 beds,” recently presented at the InterFace Student Housing Awards.

257 Thayer achieved LEED certification for implementing practical and measurable strategies and solutions aimed at achieving high performance in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. 257 Thayer features a 66kW rooftop solar array which produces approximately 10 percent of the electricity used by the building, paint with low-VOC and low emissions, low-flow fixtures to reduce water usage by at least 30 percent, electric car charging stations, bike storage and high-efficiency systems.