Science building designed to produce power
Posted In: Architecture | Energy | Academic & Medical | Sustainability Focus
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, will go the “carbon neutral” mantra one better by being a net energy producer, as well as a greenhouse-gas mitigating facility. The new $37 million building, now under construction and scheduled to be finished in summer 2011, was designed by Busby Perkins+Will. Its features include electricity, lighting, heating, water supply, liquid waste treatment, ventilation and cooling powered by systems involving the sun, wind and ground. For more: www.cirs.ubc.ca
