GreenerU wins a second consecutive BE+ Green Building Showcase award
GreenerU is proud to announce that our geothermal heating and cooling project at Wellesley Village Church, in partnership with Elevated Design, Inc., won the Building Decarb Upgrades & Interventions category of the 2026 BE+ Green Building Showcase awards!
GreenerU is proud to announce that our geothermal heating and cooling project at Wellesley Village Church, in partnership with Elevated Design, Inc., won the Building Decarb Upgrades & Interventions category of the 2026 BE+ Green Building Showcase awards!
Selected from several submissions by a panel of judges from across the country (and Canada!), the project marks GreenerU’s second consecutive win at the showcase. With the category being new as of last year, we have also been the only company to ever receive the award. Our submission highlighted the creative engineering behind the installation: fitting geothermal drilling into a constrained site, reaching 850 feet underground, and adapting existing infrastructure to support a fully electric heating and cooling system.
The judges had to say:
The project demonstrates how historic buildings can move toward decarbonization while preserving functional equipment and serving their communities. Read our Wellesley Village Church case study for more on the congregation’s decision and how the project came together. The church also recently received its $2.1 million federal investment tax credit (ITC) payment, an important financial milestone supporting its investment in geothermal.
Mark Lenci, coordinator at Wellesley, commented:
This year’s recognition follows our 2025 BE+ award for the Levinson Tower heat recovery project at Roxbury Tenants of Harvard. We are grateful to BE+ for recognizing this work, to our partners at Elevated Design, Inc., and to Wellesley Village Church for its commitment to putting environmental stewardship into practice.
Watch our Wellesley Village Church video to see the project up close, and see the poster board we developed for the 2026 BE+ submission below:
Click the photo to view the full poster.
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