Upcoming Event: UBC Campus Energy Tour with FREE PIZZA

From 2011 to 2016, UBC spent $88 million upgrading its district energy system from steam to hot water. The heart of this new system is Campus Energy Centre (CEC), a $24 million state of the art boiler plant on Agronomy Rd. 

A new district energy system was needed, since the steam system constructed in the 1920s was nearing the end of its useful lifespan. Another reason for the upgrade was to combat climate change. UBC discovered that 80% of its carbon footprint was from the natural gas used to heat buildings. The new hot water system is expected to save 24% of this natural gas.

The CEC is targeting LEED Gold Certification and will become only the 2nd UBC building to achieve this status.

Click here to see timelapse of the CEC's construction. 

• Where: CEC 6130 Agronomy Rd, Vancouver, BC
• When: Wednesday November 23 5:00pm to 6:30pm
• Why: Learning, FREE FOOD
• RSVP to Facebook here.

Upcoming Events: TELUS Garden Presentation (April 18) and YEA Brewery Crawl (April 28)

Hello Folks,

The UBC ASHRAE Student Chapter is pleased to invite all student members to an upcoming Telus Garden design presentation on April 18 as well as the Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA) Brewery Crawl on April 28. These events can be an interesting way to de-stress during and after the final exams season. Details regarding both events are listed below:

TELUS Garden Design Presentation (April 18)

TELUS Garden Building on Georgia Street, Vancouver

• Date: April 18, 2016 (Monday)
• Time: 5.30pm to 7.30pm
• Location: Room 2875, Building SW-5 (SW5-2875), BCIT Burnaby Campus (Click Here for Burnaby Campus Map)
• Key Presenter(s): Goran Ostojic, Kenneth Ng (Integral Group)
• Description:
  The TELUS Garden building opened up in September 2015 as Vancouver's greenest office tower and features a mix of LEED Platinum office and retail spaces in addition to LEED Gold residential spaces. With a cost of $750 million CAD, key design highlights include radiant heating and cooling, high performance glazing, displacement ventilation, solar PV arrays, rain-water collection and a unique district waste-to-energy system which provides for 80% of the building's heating and cooling demands from TELUS data centers. This design presentation will be led by Goran Ostojic, Vice President Western Canada at Integral Group.
  Refreshments will be provided.
• RSVP (optional but highly recommended): http://goo.gl/forms/4IgHa4KWdO
• Cost: Free Admission

YEA Brewery Crawl (April 28)

• Date: April 28, 2016 (Thursday)
• Time: 6:00 pm (See Tentative Schedule in Description)
• Location: Various - East Vancouver. (Click Here for Map of All Locations)
• Description:
  Come network and connect with Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA) members alongside some great craft beer! Enjoy beverages and cruise local breweries that you may or may not have ever stepped into. Drinks will be at your own expense. Tentative schedule is as follows:
  1) Strange Fellows Brewing Company (meet here at 6:00pm)
  2) Off the Rails Brewing
  3) Bomber Brewing
  4) Callister Brewing
  5) Possibly More
• RSVP (required): RSVP to Mike Kasuya, YEA Chairman at 604-363-3951 or YEA.BC.Chapter@gmail.com
• Cost: Free Admission (limited space, please RSVP as soon as possible)

Hope to see you all at these events.

Warm Regards,


Samarth Joshi
UBC ASHRAE Student Chapter

VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre Design Tour Update

Hello Folks,

After a very informative presentation on the VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre by Harley Grusko, Ken Newbert and Gary Rhode back in October, we are pleased to follow up with a grand tour of the facility that presents a unique opportunity to visually experience the excellence in sustainable design. In addition to the event information circulated via email, newsletters, campus ads and social media, the most up-to-date event information regarding the tour is as follows:

Date: Monday, January 25, 2016

Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Location: The meeting point for the tour is the main entrance to the Visitor Centre of VanDusen Botanical Gardens located off 5251 Oak Street at West 37th Avenue (see map image below). Parking is available off W 37th Avenue. If you are unable to locate the tour group, email us at ubcashrae@gmail.com. For detailed directions, visit this page.

No prior sign-up/registration is necessary but you may confirm attendance using this simple RSVP Form.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the event.

Cheers.

Samarth Joshi
ubcashrae@gmail.com