WiFi Building Controls
Based on research by a Ph.D candidate right here at UBC, Energy and Water Services is using the campus wireless system to find energy savings in buildings. The research found that the anonymized location data provided by the wifi system can be used to approximate the number of people in campus spaces. This can then […]
LED Lighting Retrofit Campaign
UBC Energy and Water Services in partnership with Custodial Services, BC Hydro, and the Province of British Columbia Carbon Neutral Program have begun a multi-phase T8 fluorescent to LED (Light Emitting Diode) retrofit project. The new LEDs will provide improved lighting quality to building occupants, significantly reduce campus energy consumption, and decrease building maintenance over […]
Earth Sciences Building Energy Conservation
Variable Air Volume Exhaust Project Constructed in 2012, UBC’s Earth Sciences building is a state of the art research laboratory focusing on Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric sciences. In 2015 UBC’s Energy and Water Services partnered with CPP Wind and ESC Automation to optimize the exhaust system using a wind responsive system. This has resulted in […]
Life Sciences Centre Energy Consumption
The Life Sciences Centre (LSC) is the largest building on the UBC Point Grey campus. Completed in 2004, this $125 million, 52,165 square meter building was built to accommodate the Distributed Medical Educational Program—which has nearly doubled the number of yearly medical school graduates in the province since its inception. Due to the building’s size […]
ICICS/CS Heat Recovery Chiller
The Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems/Computer Science building (ICICS/CS) is a 60,000 square foot state-of-the-art, computer science technology research facility at UBC. The facility includes eight shared labs and 38 dedicated labs. A wide range of research is conducted at ICICS/CS, including biomedical, robotics, multimedia processing, wireless communications, nanotechnology and computational intelligence research. […]
Aquatic Centre
Condensate Heat Recovery Project UBC helped FortisBC to pilot its Commercial Custom Design Program – Retrofit Projects initiative in 2012. The program helps natural gas customers like UBC by providing funding for a detailed energy study, and for capital upgrades needed to reduce natural gas consumption. The UBC Aquatic Centre participated in the pilot by implementing a condensate […]
Air Filter Replacement Program
One of hundreds of Air Handling Units bringing air into UBC buildings UBC is in the process of replacing all the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system air filters on campus over the next three years. There are over 10,000 air filters in more than 1,500 HVAC systems on campus—so choosing the right air filter can […]
Coil Cleaning
Dirt may be in the form of pollen, fabric fibres, hair, rust, tobacco smoke or even mould. Whatever its form, all dirt has the same effect on Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system coils—it blocks the airflow, degrades heat transfer, and wastes energy. The UBC Energy Planning and Innovation (EPI) group joined forces with Building Operations, […]
Centre for Comparative Medicine – Boiler retrofit
Boiler Retrofit Project The UBC Centre for Comparative Medicine was completed in 2012. The centre provides animal care and is the most energy intensive building on campus. Shortly after the centre became operational, UBC’s Energy Planning and Innovation (EPI) group discovered large quantities of standby steam being vented from the building. Not only was the […]
Pharmaceutical Sciences energy conservation
The Pharmaceutical Sciences building is one of UBC’s newest and most mechanically advanced buildings. Housing not only the Pharmaceutical Sciences program but also the campus’s main data centre, the building’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system demands are high. The building is roughly 246,000 square feet in area and contains offices, teaching lab, research laboratories, […]