Welcome to the Wood Buildings Interactive Tour!
Tour UBC’s sustainable wood buildings with your web-enabled smartphone or tablet to learn about their innovative construction features and the structural and aesthetic roles that wood-based products have played.
Backgrounder: UBC’s Leadership in Sustainability
- UBC’s Bioenergy Research & Demonstration Facility is one of four UBC projects, with a total value of $150 million, that will reduce institutional GHG emissions by 33 per cent by 2015 (below 2007 levels), including continuous optimization and a hot water district energy conversion.
- UBC’s carbon reduction targets – which include a 67 per cent reduction of institutional GHGs by 2020 and zero emissions by 2050 – are the most aggressive among top-40 universities.
- UBC’s Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability – opened in 2011 as North America’s “greenest” building – is designed to regenerate the environment and advance research, innovation and outreach on urban sustainability challenges.
- UBC is creating a model sustainable residential community where more than 18,000 students, staff, faculty and other residents live, work and learn together. UBC provides more student housing than any other university in Canada.
- UBC was the first Canadian university to meet the Kyoto Protocol requirements, received Canada’s first gold STARS rating, and is regularly ranked among the world’s greenest campuses.
This self-guided interactive tour features text descriptions for each building, as well as audio, video and images. Each of the six stops offer a general description, a narrated slideshow of the building’s general information, as well as additional pages with information about the building’s specific uses and integration of wood products, and a description of its main sustainability features. These features can be accessed by clicking on their respective icons:
General Information
Uses of Wood in the Building
Sustainability
