A Study on the Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation

The Centre for Excellence is being designed as a highly innovative, two–storey multi-purpose facility that will provide essential trades and technology training and professional development to students in British Columbia, Canada and beyond. The building will support a syllabus with a focus on sustainable building technologies and processes, and the development and application of alternative and renewable energy. Design work and construction will be completed in time for the building to open in April 2011. The Centre for Excellence will also host an incubator organization to provide tenancy space for start–up innovation and research companies specializing in sustainable technologies. This building project is unique from a number of perspectives. It is aimed at attaining the highest standard of sustainable building design, namely the Living Building Challenge. Further, the building itself will become an essential element of the educational programs that will reside there, mainly focused on building trades ...