Seismic Planning Timeline

2025

• Campus-wide seismic risk analysis update: In progress
  • Seismic Steering Committee provides oversight of the overall initiative
• Museum of Anthropology Great Hall Renewal: Landscape completion anticipated for Summer 2025
• Jack Bell Renewal: In construction, target completion November 2025
• Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) Building Renewal: In design stage
• HR MacMillan Building lobby balcony: Design start
• Douglas T. Kenny Building next phase seismic upgrades: Design start

2024

• Update to Seismic Ground Motions (Risk analysis data)
• Museum of Anthropology Great Hall Renewal: Completed, museum re-opened in June 2024
• Powerhouse Expansion: Demolition complete
• Jack Bell Renewal: Construction start
• Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) Building Renewal: Design start

2023

• Refining the seismic Redi guidelines
• UNY substation: Structural upgrades completed
• Museum of Anthropology Great Hall Renewal: Under construction

2022

• Douglas T. Kenny Building: L1-L3 Seismic upgrades completed
• Implementation of seismic guidelines on the MacLeod Building Renewal and Jack Bell Building for the School of Social Work Renewal
• Macleod Building Renewal construction completion: Pilot Project for Redi Guideline updates
• Jack Bell Renewal: Design started
• Executing the recommendations laid out in the 2019 ARUP report
• Read the 2022 Board of Governors Report

2021

• Executing the recommendations laid out in the 2019 ARUP report
• Working with ARUP on the following Seismic guidelines:

1. 1. Seismic Real Estate Framework and Roadmap to Resilience
      • This guideline establishes a vision for seismic resilience on the UBC Point Grey campus
      • This will serve as a guide to help leaders, decision makers, and planners, as the campus develops to plan for resiliency for our buildings and spaces.
      • Establishes objectives, goals, and objectives that set the framework for Project teams in conjunction with the REDi^TMRating System
      • Guidelines
   2. REDi^TMRating System: Resilience-based design Initiative for the Next Generation of Buildings: Earthquake Edition, developed for the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
      • This guideline provides guidance to project teams in regards to achieving resilience and performance-based design, relative to the targets as set out in the Real Estate Framework
   3. Guidelines for Seismic Protection of Building Contents
      • This guideline is for indicative building contents recommended for restrain and methods of restraining

• Seismic studies completed on the UBC Point Grey campus
  • Completed Phase 2 of the Detailed Modelling phase: This evaluation is intended to improve the confidence level in predicting how these buildings will perform in an earthquake and the associated risk to the University. To date, we have completed studies in an additional nine buildings, bringing the total to 27 buildings reviewed and studied to date.

• To date, we have reviewed an additional 28 buildings which were previously identified as having insufficient records available to perform accurate structural assessments on. These structural assessments are now complete and we are in the process of updating the overall campus risk level.
• Completed concept feasibility studies for retrofit concepts on most of the 27 buildings

2019

• ARUP report looks at a conceptual plan for the long term renewal of campus assets.
• The report provides unique insights into possible structural impacts that allows UBC to consider “surgical interventions” before full building replacements.
• The plan also contains a conceptual plan for the long term upgrading and renewal of highest risk campus buildings, non-structural upgrading, utilities, and various operational matters
• Read the 2019 ARUP Report

2017

• ARUP report on campus looks at the bigger picture
• Refreshes the previous assessments based
  on new methods and knowledge
• Quantifies the risks to people, assets, and core functions on campus under various earthquake scenarios in explicit terms
• Identifies critical vulnerabilities in buildings, utilities, and operations and proposes initial strategies for cost-effective mitigation
• Read the 2017 ARUP report

2012

• Follow-up study with Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers and JM Engineering
• Identifies a number of our buildings as high or very high seismic risk
• Several buildings are retrofitted or replaced following this survey

1994

• Comprehensive seismic assessment of the full building stock on the Vancouver campus
• Some of the highest risk buildings identified at this time were seismically upgraded as part of the UBC Renew program between 2003 and 2011