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. SUSTAINABILITY MILESTONES ABOUT UBC Parkade Garden NW Marine Drive Rose Welcome to the Sustainability Walk, an experiential Tailloires declaration signed. UBC makes a 19 Crescent Rd self-guided tour of the University of British Columbia’s 90 global commitment to sustainability. sustainability landmarks. Gardens
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Adopts a sustainable development policy ParkadeNorth The University of British Columbia is a global centre for Memorial Rd Fraser River 19 (first in Canada). Parkade research and teaching, and consistently ranked among the Gardens 98 Library 40 best universities in the world. Student Union Blvd Opens Campus Sustainability Office (first in With more than 20 years of sustainability achievement, 20 Agricultural Rd
Canada). WestMall 07 UBC’s sustainability efforts can be seen in every corner of Meets Kyoto Protocol GHG reduction targets the campus. University 20 5 years early. Boulevard GUIDED TOUR 09 Integrates sustainability as a core pillar LowerMall West Parkade
WesbrookMall Request a guided tour of UBC’s green buildings:
in highest level strategic plan . Mall East 20 sustain.ubc.ca/tours 10 Sets bold targets to reduce GHG emissions as Health Sciences Parkade
part of UBC’s Climate Action Plan. Mall Main Sustainability Street ABOUT THE VANCOUVER CAMPUS 20 STAY CONNECTED UBC VANCOUVER CAMPUS 11 Earns designation as Canada’s first Fair Trade Agronomy Road UBC Vancouver is located on the traditional, ancestral and Campus. unceded territory of the Musqueam people. sustain.ubc.ca | @sustainUBC SUSTAINABILITY 20 Agronomy Road With nearly 60,000 students and 15,000 staff and faculty, Earns STARS Gold rating (first in Canada). 13 UBC’s Vancouver campus is home to a vibrant, sustainable residential community, where some 20,000 students, WALK Thunderbird Boulevard faculty, staff and other residents live, work and learn 20 20 Year Sustainability strategy released. 15 together. Hawthorn Place Totem 20 On track to achieve 33% reduction in Field GHG emissions from 2007 levels. 16 Rhododendron Wood Thunderbird Park
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Student Union Blvd Walter Gage Walter Road Health Sciences Parkade Ross DriveUBC Farm Alma Mater Society Nest C.K. Choi Building East Mall Sustainability is central at the AMS Nest. The goal is LEED Platinum UBC’s first green building, the C.K. Choi Building, set benchmarks worldwide Certification (the highest Green Building rating in North America). The when it opened in 1996. Nearly half of all building materials came from 2 AMS Nest incorporates over 100 Social, Environmental, and Economic former buildings and streets, including the 400 year-old red bricks from Studies (SEEDS) student-led sustainability projects. Sustainability Vancouver’s Yaletown neighbourhood and wood beams from UBC’s old 3 highlights in the building include solar-powered heating and cooling Library 8 Armoury. The building utilizes waterless composting toilets, saving 1000 Gardens systems, in-vessel composting facilities, storm water management to 1500 gallons of water per day. Potable water is only required for the Stadium Rd
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University Boulevard Water Feature Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Gardens The UBC Farm Road Agronomy This unique water feature (previously a parking lot) is designed to collect UBC’s first LEED Platinum certified building, CIRS models regenerative The UBC Botanical Garden and filter stormwater runoff. Stormwater is collected and fed into the design as it relates to environmental and human wellbeing. The building Bus Loop feature, cleaned through biofiltration, and then stored in a cistern below features wood sourced from pine beetle affected forests and includes University Square. The cleaned water is then released into the environment a seasonally responsive living wall, solar panels, radiant panel heat in a more controlled manner, reducing the volume of water and its erosive ventilation, a green roof and a Solar Aquatics Bio-filter wastewater effects. In recognition of UBC’s relationship with the Musqueam people, a treatment lab. The waste water on site is collected and treated using 34 foot tall Musqueam Post was added in 2016, and serves as a permanent naturally occurring processes to reclaim the treated water for toilets and welcome to all visitors. irrigation.
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Chemistry Centre Bioenergy Research & Demonstration Facility (BRDF) Earth Sciences Building (ESB) The Beaty Biodiversity Museum This heritage building, one of UBC’s oldest, now features state-of-the-art Using renewable fuels, BRDF produces steam, electricity, and hot water ESB features the largest application of cross laminated timber (CLT) in The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is home to UBC’s vast natural history North America, using over 1,300 tons of BC sourced and engineered labs and lecture theatres. Renovated through UBC Renew, this program that is then distributed for use in campus buildings. BRDF was the first collections and UBC’s Biodiversity Research Centre. Explore the vast minimizes the financial and environmental impacts of demolition and project in North America of this scale capable of generating both clean CLT. Each ton of dry wood products sequesters sufficient carbon to 2 displays and marvel at the diversity of life with over 500 exhibits. Take reduces the need for new construction. It also preserves the spectacular heat and power using biomass, a plant based, carbon neutral alternative keep between 1.8 and 2.0 tons of CO from being formed. The wood 2 a moment to appreciate the blue whale skeleton. The largest creature to buildings that give UBC its character and sense of history. Renovating to fossil fuels. Research aimed at reducing GHG emissions and fossil fuel materials in ESB sequester about 2,600 tons of CO . ESB also features a through UBC Renew kept 313 tonnes of waste out of the landfill, and saved consumption is also conducted on site. BRDF has been a key contributor high efficiency envelope, timber cantilevered staircase, high performance ever live on Earth. After viewing the sizable collections, browse the gift five million litres of water. High-efficiency lighting and a heat recovery in helping UBC reach its 2015 Climate Action Goal, reducing campus window glazing, thermal energy exchange and a stormwater management shop or grab a snack in the Niche Cafe. system reduce energy use by 21 per cent annually compared to a standard emissions by 14%. system. building.
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