Real estate investment and construction enterprise Suffolk has delivered the Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences. The 19-story, 345,000 square foot facility, which is the tallest building located on Boston University’s Charles River campus, is the university’s most energy-efficient building.

The sustainable building is 100% fossil-fuel free due to a geothermal bore system consisting of 31 bores drilled approximately 1,500 feet deep into the earth. The bores harness the thermal resources of the earth to heat and cool the building without the need to connect to a gas line.

The new facility also features triple-glazed windows that help contain heat inside the building and terraces and green roofs that offer stunning views and reduce the urban heat island effect.

The structure is composed of a series of floorplates shifted and cantilevered around the building’s central core to a vertically stacked and staggered layout of “neighborhoods” for each academic discipline.