Principle Investigator (current): Professor Ronald Kellett, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Principle Investigator (2015-2017): Professor Raymond Cole, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Project Manager: Angelique Pilon, UBC University Sustainability Initiative
This project will develop practical strategies and policy recommendations to increase energy efficiency in BC’s built environment, which currently accounts for about 10 percent of provincial GHG emissions. The built environment is a complex intertwined multi-scale system of cities, towns and neighbourhoods whose energy performance is shaped by factors such as building design and the behaviour of its inhabitants, as well by the infrastructure that serves those buildings. Therefore the types and location of buildings and how they are designed, built and operated will be central to reducing emissions.