Green Building Tour with Penny Martyn
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Meet at CIRS, 2260 West Mall at 12:00pm
In celebration of Earth Day, join us on a free Green Building Tour to learn more about sustainable building design with Penny Martyn, UBC’s Green Building Manager. This one hour tour will allow participants to tour two leading examples of green building on campus, as well as learn more about UBC’s ambitious new Green Building Plan. A guided tour will be provided of the following buildings:
- The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), UBC’s first LEED Platinum certified building, is designed to be one of the most innovative and high-performance buildings in North America. The building includes waste heat recovery from a neighbouring building, a solar energy system, ground-source heating and an on-site wastewater treatment system.
- The Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF), the first of it’s kind in North America, processes renewable biomass to generate hot water for heating campus buildings. The system reduces UBC’s reliance on fossil fuels, reduces campus greenhouse gas emissions, and provides a platform for bioenergy research. The BRDF is also one of the first buildings in North America to use cross-laminated timber on an institutional building of this size and scope.
About the Facilitator: Penny Martyn (Architect- AIBC, LEED AP BD&C) is the Green Building Manager in UBC Campus and Community Planning, Sustainability and Engineering. Penny oversees the development and implementation of green building policies and procedures for new buildings at UBC. She is a registered Architect and brings her experience working on sustainable buildings in private practice to her role on campus. Her work covers campus academic buildings and residential projects in the neighbourhoods. Her current focus is work on UBC’s first Green Building Plan.
Space is limited, so please register in advance to reserve your space!