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Yanni Sippis

Senior Vice President, WS Development · 1 appearance on the record.

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Yanni Tsipis leads WS Development's Boston Seaport project and development around Fenway Park. He spearheaded the first commercial deployment of Sublime Systems' low-carbon cement at One Boston Wharf Road and has authored multiple books on Boston's transportation infrastructure.

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2 assertions · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Yanni argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
WS Development installed Sublime's low-carbon cement at One Boston Wharf's entrance
“And so we made a decision to put Sublime right at the front door of the building. So that everybody who walks into and out of one Boston Wharf Road through the beautiful public space that exists at the ground floor of that building will be stepping on sublime …”
Yanni Sippis Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 16:06 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Yanni Sippis on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Yanni Sippis said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Building electrification costs dwarf the green premium on low-carbon cement
“The premium that we pay for sustainability in terms of this building being all electric in terms of the quality of the systems and the nature of the systems that we're already building into the building makes the cost of the cement, even if it were the entire …”
Yanni Sippis Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 13:17 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement
Disclosure
Sublime's pilot cement premium had negligible impact on the project budget
“The quantities that we're talking about here were small enough such that whatever the premium was for, you know, the product at the time that we used it. And of course, it's important to point out that the moment in time or the moment in the sublime trajectory…”
Yanni Sippis Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 12:26 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement
Assertion Supported
WS Development installed Sublime's low-carbon cement at One Boston Wharf's entrance
“And so we made a decision to put Sublime right at the front door of the building. So that everybody who walks into and out of one Boston Wharf Road through the beautiful public space that exists at the ground floor of that building will be stepping on sublime …”
Yanni Sippis Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 16:06 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement
Assertion Supported
Sublime's low-carbon cement handled identically to conventional ready-mix concrete
“The good news is the Sublime product worked and handled just like normal ready-mixed concrete did except they had a lot of people standing around watching and taking videos and documenting and smiling and, you know, really enjoying watching this section of gro…”
Yanni Sippis Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 19:42 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement

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Statements about Yanni Sippis, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
WS Development poured the first commercial low-carbon concrete in history
“Yanni Sippis and his team were building the largest net zero office in Boston, and they were getting ready to pour a low-carbon version of concrete, one that had never been used in the entire history of commercial construction.”
Lara Pierpoint Feb 5, 2025 ▶ 1:02 The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The first commercial construction project for low-carbon cement Feb 5, 2025 19m
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