Facilities News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

UBC’s Biological Sciences West Building UBC completed a major renovation on the Biological Sciences West building in 2012, which included replacing its mechanical system. Upon…

Completed between 2001 and 2008, ECOTrek involved retrofitting 288 UBC academic buildings to reduce energy and water consumption. At the time, ECOTrek was the largest…