UBC's Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) — Transcript

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1. 0:01and recycling is only one small part of
2. 0:04what makes the greenest building in
3. 0:05North America so green UBC researchers
4. 0:09have designed and built a structure that
5. 0:11sets a new standard for
6. 0:13sustainability every detail from floor
7. 0:15to ceiling from lighting to Plumbing has
8. 0:18been engineered to minimize its impact
9. 0:20on the environment and the result is
10. 0:23quite startling Brian coxford
11. 0:27reports it's not a building that at
12. 0:29first stands out from the rest of the
13. 0:31architecture at UBC but if you look
14. 0:34closer the wow factor sets in it's a
15. 0:37structure that lives in breeds and in so
16. 0:39many ways it's an example of what we
17. 0:41desperately need if we want a livable
18. 0:43planet in future years we are the
19. 0:46greenest building in North America uh
20. 0:48we're going to um go for the highest
21. 0:51ranking in terms of sustainability
22. 0:53performance that exist the greenest most
23. 0:55environmentally friendly building in
24. 0:57North America it goes well beyond the
25. 1:00solar and shade panels that allow it to
26. 1:02generate more energy than it
27. 1:04uses no water from rain or sewage leaves
28. 1:08the center for interactive research on
29. 1:10sustainability at UBC these plants grow
30. 1:13in water reclaimed from the building
31. 1:15sewage and it's odor-free we're wasting
32. 1:18nothing no waste water generated in this
33. 1:21building goes back to the uh Municipal
34. 1:24systems it's all treated here and the
35. 1:26nutrients are used to feed the plants
36. 1:30the water in the toilets and urals has
37. 1:32been reclaimed from sewage in a
38. 1:34treatment facility in the basement rain
39. 1:36water collected on the roof is stored
40. 1:38and purified here they drink it in the
41. 1:40building reclaimed water is also used to
42. 1:43irrigate the building's living roof we
43. 1:45got a green roof and we got some uh
44. 1:48strawberry here so what it does is uh it
45. 1:51acts as a kind of like an insulation for
46. 1:53the roof for below um so it uses less
47. 1:56energy the scientists inside also
48. 1:59practice what they preach looking for
49. 2:01sustainability Solutions in this project
50. 2:04a sneeze machine simulates a sick
51. 2:06patient in a hospital with this
52. 2:08experiment researchers hope to manage
53. 2:10energy and germs with better ventilation
54. 2:13making our health facilities safer for
55. 2:15everyone and hospitals are known to
56. 2:17consume a lot of energy so we're trying
57. 2:19to achieve uh a win-win situation
58. 2:21whereas you reduced U Hospital energy
59. 2:24consumption at the same time improve the
60. 2:26air quality there's no expensive air
61. 2:29conditioning here air flow hot and cold
62. 2:31is engineered by cooling the atmosphere
63. 2:33with shade outside the windows thousands
64. 2:35of monitors control levels of CO2 carbon
65. 2:38monoxide heat and light there's also
66. 2:40extensive use of beetle wood making this
67. 2:43UBC building a model that sets the
68. 2:45standards for future Architects and
69. 2:47Engineers to follow I some good things
70. 2:51happening in British Columbia Chris who
71. 2:53knew there was a sneeze machine at UBC
72. 2:56amazing all right thanks very much Deb