Articles tagged "Sustainability"
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ Launches Survey to Assess Community Interest in Clean Energy Retrofitting
May 29, 2024
A unique applied research project is underway with the launch of an important community initiative aimed at promoting sustainability in Vernon.Led by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ faculty, the project aims to initiate a comprehensive survey to assess community interest in clean energy retrofitting among homeowners.In collaboration with HomeZero Collective, and with support from a Mobilize research grant funded through NSERC, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ seeks to gather valuable insights from Vernon residents regarding their attitudes, motivations and barriers related to retrofit...
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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ’s Health Sciences Centre receives LEED gold certification
December 23, 2021
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ’s leadership as a champion of sustainability continues after receiving another LEED certification for the new Health Sciences Centre (HSC), which officially opened at the Kelowna campus in October. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most widely used green building rating system that certifies the level of sustainability-related features incorporated in a building’s design. The HSC building joins several other buildings at three Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ campuses that have already received certification: th...
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Building the energy efficient home of the future
August 23, 2021
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ and UBCO collaboration powers up Wilden Living Lab Phase 2 It’s a research partnership that’s about more than bricks and mortar. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ and UBC Okanagan — together with Wilden’s Blenk Development Corp., AuthenTech Homes and FortisBC — have broken ground on Phase 2 of the Wilden Living Lab research project. Phase one started in 2016 when two homes were built side-by-side in Wilden. One was built to current building codes including a natural gas furnace, standard plumbing fixtures and appliances, doub...
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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ doing its part to reduce emissions
April 22, 2021
As the world’s leaders gather on Earth Day 2021 to discuss steps to battle climate change, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ is pointing to recent statistics that demonstrate how far its energy savings efforts are advancing B.C.’s sustainability agenda. Calculations completed this week show that Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ has reduced its total overall greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 44 per cent since 2007 – this in the face of an overall growth in space of 44 per cent in the same period. The calculations show that Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û²éѯ has managed to decrease its per-square-metre emissions by mor...
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