S F U C O M M U N I T Y T R U S T, B U R N A BY, B R I T I S H C O L U M B I A
UniverCity
A CO M PLE T E
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ON B U R N A BY M OU NTA I N
ON TOP OF TH E WO RLD
Livable, Affordable, Sustainable The SFU Community Corporation is governed by an independent Board of Directors that includes Simon Fraser University stakeholders, faculty and student representatives, as well as external members with expertise in real estate development, finance, law, and other related disciplines. As Trustee of this land owned by SFU, the Board sets policy for SFU Community Trust, helping to shape the future of UniverCity. For a current list of the Board of Directors, please visit the UniverCity website at www.univercity.ca CONTACT INFO SFU Community Trust Suite 130 8960 University High Street Burnaby, BC, V5A 4Y6 604.291.3000 Gordon Harris President & CEO 604.291.3138 harris@univercity.ca Dale Mikkelsen Vice President, Development 604.268.6649 mikkelsen@univercity.ca Facebook: UniverCitySFU Twitter: UniverCity_SFU Instagram: UniverCity_SFU
Photography: SITE Photography, SFU Creative Services, & Kaylin Co Design: Tinrodeo A + E
Table of Contents SFU President’s Message
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What It’s Like Living on Top of the World
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Celebrating Firsts
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Community Map
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Burnably Mountain Link
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SFU Community Trust Endowment Fund
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UniverCity Student Projects
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Community Snapshots
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Artwalk
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Awards & Recognition
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SFU President’s Message
It’s right there when I look out my office window: rising on what used to be an expanse of surface parking, UniverCity is proving itself to be one of the most sustainable communities in the world and, by every measure, a boon to Simon Fraser University. Barely more than a decade ago, SFU Burnaby was an isolated commuter campus. Here, atop Burnaby Mountain, we have one of the most beautiful locations in the world, surrounded by forest and overlooking the farthest reaches of Metro Vancouver. But on evenings and weekends, this campus was desolate; students in residence complained that they felt stranded, forced to travel off the mountain for any necessity they couldn’t find in the cafeteria or the library. But now, thanks to the foresight of my predecessors and the outstanding work of SFU Community Trust, there is a walkable, livable and highly sustainable community—not just on the doorstep but highly integrated with SFU. There is a burgeoning High Street with shops and restaurants, a full-service grocery store and a liquor store. There is a range of housing, including a development specifically designed to provide a more affordable option for SFU staff and faculty. There is an expanding elementary school and the world’s greenest childcare centre. Many parents who would otherwise be forced to take to a long, daily automobile commute now drop off their kids on the 10-minute walk from their homes to their jobs or classes here on campus. UniverCity has changed lives and made SFU a more animated and enjoyable place to be, every day of the week. With UniverCity, SFU Community Trust has also demonstrated to Metro Vancouver, to Canada and to the world how to plan and develop a community that raises the standards of environmental sustainability at every turn. The Trust has strived to model sustainable practices in all aspects of the community’s development, beginning with the initial decision to conserve most of the University’s endowment lands in its natural state by concentrating development in a compact community readily
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accessible to campus and transit services. SFU Community Trust, working as a development authority, then set world-class standards for performance in everything from stormwater management to energy consumption. In its own actions, and by requiring developers to aim higher, the Trust has set an example for what is possible. Finally, through the development of UniverCity, the Trust has generated over $43 million in funds that are now available to support SFU’s education and research missions. It has also provided an additional $15 million in physical infrastructure for the University’s benefit. SFU is better funded, better equipped and better functioning because of UniverCity. For these reasons and many more, I am proud and grateful to be associated with SFU Community Trust—and pleased as well to be a resident of this wonderful community! I commend this report to you so that you can fully appreciate the local impact and global example of UniverCity.
Professor Andrew Petter President and Vice Chancellor, Simon Fraser University
What It’s Like Living on Top of the World
Livable. Affordable. Sustainable. Any one of those positive, powerful adjectives might describe a community you’d want to call home. Together, they encompass a model community called UniverCity, a success for its residents and an example that is being hailed, and emulated, by planners the world over. Nestled in the heart of Metro Vancouver—atop Burnaby Mountain and adjacent to Canada’s leading comprehensive academic institution, Simon Fraser University—UniverCity is more than halfway to completion. Currently home to 5,000 residents, and preparing for another 4,000 or more by the year 2021, UniverCity has already received more than 30 major awards—locally, nationally and internationally—for best practices and achievement in planning and sustainability. Led by SFU Community Trust, UniverCity boasts the greenest childcare centre (UniverCity Childcare Centre) on the planet, the first LEED Gold school retrofit in British Columbia history (University Highlands Elementary), an award-winning stormwater management system, and, soon, a Neighbourhood Utility Service that will become Canada’s first district energy utility to power a university campus and community (see pages 6-7 for more about these stories). Add a bustling and vibrant High Street, and it’s hard to imagine that there was nothing on the east side of the hill a mere 10 years ago. Even so, UniverCity was a long time coming. Back in 1963, when architects Arthur Erickson and Geoff Massey submitted their initial plan for Simon Fraser University, they envisioned that it would anchor a residential community atop Burnaby Mountain. But it was not until 1995 that then SFU President John Stubbs announced the Unversity’s intention to fulfill that vision. He signed a Memorandum of Understanding with City of Burnaby Mayor William Copeland, transferring more than 320 hectares of
University-owned land to the city’s Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area, in return for preliminary planning approval for the new community. By 1996, the City of Burnaby approved the Official Community Plan (OCP), and less than a decade later, UniverCity welcomed its first residents to One University Crescent, Novo, and Harmony. Today, 5,000 residents live in 17 developments—everything from family-friendly townhomes to concrete high-rises. More than half the households are filled by people associated with SFU, be they staff, students, or faculty. The rest are people who have chosen UniverCity for its livability and sustainability—its daily convenience, its proximity to nature, and its general accessibility, including excellent transit connections to virtually every part of Greater Vancouver. About half of all households have children, many of whom attend University Highlands Elementary and the UniverCity Childcare Centre. One might assume now, with the community more than half way to completion, that the pace of progress would slow. Gordon Harris, President and CEO of SFU Community Trust, would disagree. He’d tell you that the Trust still has much in store for the community. First up are strategic partnerships that will bring additional amenities and benefits to UniverCity. In September 2016, the BC Provincial Government approved an eight-classroom expansion to University Highlands Elementary School, supported by investments from the Province, the Burnaby School Board, the City of Burnaby and $1 million from SFU Community Trust. You can read more about those plans (which include additional before-andafter-school care) on pages 6-7. And thanks to partnerships with SFU and Corix Multi-Utility Services Inc. (Corix), UniverCity and SFU’s Burnaby campus will soon launch a Neighbourhood Utility Service, powered by locally
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1996 | SFU begins planning for UniverCity, to complement university and to generate an endowment to support teaching and research 1996 | Students, faculty, staff, neighbouring and prospective residents and other stakeholders come together to create a Vision and Community Plan, approved by the City of Burnaby as the Official Community Plan
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sourced biomass that would otherwise be destined for landfills. The project, an expansion of UniverCity’s existing district energy system, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 85 percent. (again, see pages 6-7 for more). The new pursuits don’t stop there. Raising the bar further for market-based, green building solutions, SFU Community Trust is seeking to develop an affordable, 90-suite rental building to Passivhaus standards—a stringent, green building model already used widely in Europe where it can regularly be delivered within a conventional construction budget. The Trust (which built the net-zero-footprint UniverCity Childcare Centre for 18 percent less than comparable conventional facilities) has partnered with the architectural firm Local Practice, and with the BC Institute of Technology,
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whose architectural and construction trades students will use the Passivhaus project for on-site learning, and will document the evolution of the project to make it easier for others to repeat its success. The UniverCity gateway and main transit hub (which funnels nearly 13,000 people to and from Burnaby Mountain each day), is another opportunity in waiting. SFU Community Trust has been an advocate for bringing an aerial link (or gondola) to Burnaby Mountain from the Production Way SkyTrain station. A cable-propelled system would resolve transportation issues: reducing greenhouse gas emissions; diverting diesel buses to much-needed destinations elsewhere in the region; improving reliability in bad weather; and ending long wait-times endured by commuters who are regularly left standing as one over-crowded bus after
2014 | Lift completed Stormwater Management Pond completed 2013 | Origin completed Highland House completed 2012 | UniverCity Childcare Centre opens – “the greenest childcare on the planet” 2012 | Nest completed
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another pulls away without them. The aerial link would cut travel time in half and pay for itself more than threeand-a-half times over in the first 25 years. Trust President and CEO Harris says he is optimistic that UniverCity will see this transformative and sustainable transit solution soon, adding, “the Burnaby Mountain Link will add to UniverCity’s reputation as a community of firsts.” Indeed, it would be the first urban aerial transit link in Canada, adding to the growing list of accomplishments that help make UniverCity a livable, sustainable model community, overlooking one of the most beautiful regions in the world. “The view from up here is incredible,” Harris says. “but the view of what’s being created in this community is what’s really mesmerizing.”
TODAY…And if achieving these sustainability goals isn’t enough, UniverCity has also contributed more than $43 million in cash and an additional $15 million in physical benefits to SFU, proceeds that support teaching and research in fields such as nanotechnology, chronic disease, and climate change. But we are not done yet. From creating a community celebrating firsts (pages 6-7), we are determined to ensure that UniverCity will continue to deliver on the promise of a Livable, Affordable, Sustainable community.
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Celebrating Firsts
1 1 SFU ENDORSES CENTRAL ENERGY PLANT FOR BURNABY MOUNTAIN SFU recently signed an agreement with Corix Multi-Utility Services Inc. (Corix) to expand the existing district energy utility for a new Central Energy Plant that will provide both UniverCity and SFU with green, thermal energy. With $4.7 million from the Province of British Columbia and additional support from BC Hydro, the partnership between SFU, SFU Community Trust and Corix will produce energy using locally sourced biomass that would otherwise be destined for landfills (including urban wood waste, uncontaminated wood waste, and clean construction wood waste). “The proposed Central Energy Plant is another example of SFU Community Trust partnering with SFU and industry leaders to help deliver low carbon sustainable homes and a high level of comfort and convenience at UniverCity,” said Dale Mikkelsen, the Trust’s Vice President, Development. “The combination of long-term environmental and economic benefits to UniverCity residents include significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions on Burnaby Mountain.” The proposed plant would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 85 percent, and improve 24/7 service reliability to Burnaby Mountain. Municipal and provincial regulatory processes will be underway beginning Fall 2017, and construction could begin early in 2018.
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In September 2016—almost six years to the day of its official opening—grade 2 and 3 students from University Highlands Elementary School were on hand as MLA for Burnaby North, Richard T. Lee, joined partners from SFU Community Trust, the Burnaby School Board, SFU Childcare Society and SFU to make an important announcement on behalf of Education Minister Mike Bernier. Thanks to $3.9 million in funding, University Highlands Elementary School—a provincial first and one of the best community-building features at UniverCity— is about to get even better.
2 The project will create 195 new student spaces through the construction of a two-storey addition, which will house seven new elementary classrooms and one kindergarten classroom. Part of the project also includes relocating 24 before-and-afterschool care spaces from the west side of the SFU Campus to University Highlands Elementary, meaning that children will no longer have to leave school property to attend their after-school care program. The BC Provincial government contributed almost $2.8 million towards the expansion project and SFU Community Trust contributed another $1 million towards the addition. The SFU Childcare Society is also contributing $400,000 towards the expansion and $100,000 to purchase equipment through a grant from the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development. The $11.7-million University Highlands Elementary School opened its doors in 2010, thanks to a building donation by SFU Community Trust and investments of $8.8 million from the Provincial government and $2.9 million from the Burnaby School Board, SFU Community Trust and the City of Burnaby. BC’s first LEED™ Gold school renovation is currently home to 227 students and features a curriculum focused on sustainability and community involvement. Teachers take advantage of opportunities in the UniverCity community and on the SFU campus to help students learn about their impact on the local and global environment. The expansion will set the stage for welcoming a new generation of University Highlands students, increasing the capacity to 485 students.
3 CHILDCARE CENTRE IN BLOOM On May 12th, 2016 SFU Community Trust Vice President, Development Dale Mikkelsen was on hand in Seattle to receive an award for Petal Certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The ILFI oversees the Living Building Challenge (LBC), and the UniverCity Childcare Centre is set to become
3 the first Living Building in Canada. To be fully certified, a Living Building must achieve the most advanced measures of sustainability in the built environment possible today. The Childcare Centre must meet a series of performance criteria in every challenge category, including Site, Health + Happiness, Equity, Beauty, Materials, Water and Energy. The Childcare Centre has now received all of its LBC petals except Energy, which the Trust expects to receive in 2017. This makes our childcare centre the most advanced LBC building in Canada to date. The UniverCity Childcare Centre opened in 2012 and was the recipient of a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant totaling $216,000 in partnership with the SFU Faculty of Education. Deemed “the greenest childcare centre on the planet� by the ILFI, the centre was built for 18 percent less than a conventional childcare centre. For more information about the UniverCity Childcare Centre, visit: http://univercity.ca/ the-community/childcare-education
4 GREEN BUILDING BYLAWS From its inception UniverCity began setting its sights on the highest possible standards for construction, and was the first community of its scale in the Greater Vancouver area to devise Green Building Guidelines. Then, the Trust took that commitment even further by working with the City of Burnaby to preserve those standards in a set of the most ambitious green building bylaws in the country. Specifically every building has been built to a performance standard that, for the past decade, exceeded the model national building code requirements by 30 percent for energy efficiency and 40 percent for water efficiency. Additionally, the Trust offers a 10 percent density bonus to those developers. Additionally, the Trust can offer a 10 percent density bonus to those developers that can achieve energy efficiency at 45 percent higher than code and upgrade to the Stormwater Management system at UniverCity.
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5 AWARD-WINNING STORMWATER MANAGEMENT One of the many successful early initiatives at UniverCity is the comprehensive stormwater management system. Designed as a combination of community-scale facilities and on-parcel storage and infiltration, the system is designed to mimic nature by returning nearly 100 per cent of stormwater to the ground instead of into conventional drainage pipes and ditches. The objective is to maintain pre-development stormwater runoff quality and quantity so that downstream aquatic life is not adversely affected by the new development. There are currently two detention ponds in the community along with an extensive network of open watercourses and bioswales. Pervious pavers along the roads and sidewalks direct stormwater into underlying infiltration chambers rather than into curbside catch basins. Each parcel also has a registered covenant requiring the developer and leaseholder to implement an on-site stormwater storage and infiltration system. These include extensive requirements for permeable paving and landscaping strategies as detailed in the UniverCity Development Guidelines. The Slopes Neighbourhood (Phase 4) has seen the addition of a third stormwater management pond (Pond C) to the community. A unique and important component of the Stormwater Management Plan is the regular monitoring of the system. Referred to as Adaptive Management, the constant evaluation ensures the system is evolving to meet changing needs and conditions. An Adaptive Management Committee has met regularly since March 2003. The Committee is chaired by the City of Burnaby and includes additional representatives from Metro Vancouver, Stoney Creek Streamkeepers Society, SFU, and SFU Community Trust.
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Burnaby Mountain Link: Transformative, Sustainable Transit It would be faster, more comfortable, more reliable and would more than pay for itself compared to the current transit service. It would cut automobile traffic and reduce Burnaby Mountain greenhouse gas emissions by more than 7,000 tonnes a year—and it would free up diesel buses to provide 57,000 hours of annual service in other parts of Metro Vancouver.
transit and transportation network. Certainly, the service would be a boon to the 5,000 people already living in UniverCity, as well as for students, faculty and staff at SFU; 56 percent of all commuters to and from Burnaby Mountain use transit (compared to 39 percent in Downtown Vancouver and just 12 percent in the region overall).
“It” is an aerial link between Burnaby Mountain and the Production Way SkyTrain station. As reported in Burnaby Now, SFU President Andrew Petter recently told the Burnaby Board of Trade that University officials will be sharing the case for the gondola with all three levels of government over the coming months.
But using transit can be challenging. More than 12,600 daily transit riders funnel through a single, overcrowded bus route; people pouring off the SkyTrain at Production Way must often wait 20 minutes or longer for space on the #145. And given that those buses must climb more than 300 vertical metres, winter conditions interrupt or cancel service altogether as many as 10 days a year. By 2021 the total ridership could exceed the capacity of frequent bus service.
This is great news for the Metro Vancouver region and the residents of UniverCity—a third of whom rely on public transit. TransLink has been studying the potential for an aerial link for more than five years, with positive results. In a 2011 business case, updated this year, engineering consultants CH2M estimated capital costs of an all-electric system at $130 million, with annual operating costs at $3.14 million. CH2M estimated a life-cycle, cost-benefit ratio of 3.6: meaning that the system would deliver value three-and-a-half times its cost in the first 25 years. As SFU urban studies professor Anthony Perl recently told SFU’s student paper The Peak , the cost “might seem a lot to students … but it’s a fraction of the cost of the Evergreen Line.” The Burnaby Mountain Link, Perl said, “is a real value deal.” Not surprisingly, the public supports the idea: provided with environmental, reliability and cost-benefit information, 80 percent of Burnaby residents and 88 percent of student transit users favour the Burnaby Mountain Link as a vital connection in the region’s
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A cable-propelled transit system would resolve all of these issues. Universally accessible 35-person gondola cabins would take seven minutes—less than half the 15+ minute bus trip on and off the mountain. SFU Community Trust President and CEO Gordon Harris said recently that “the Burnaby Mountain Link would extend UniverCity’s international record for urban innovation and environmental leadership.” This would be the first urban aerial transit link in Canada, Harris said, calling it “a transformative and sustainable transportation alternative.”
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That’s how much travel time automobile users will save by switching to the Burnaby Mountain Link, reducing auto-operating costs by$4.5M and collision costs by $3.4M.
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million hours The Burnaby Mountain Link would eliminate more than 57,000 hours of diesel bus operations in the tonnes first year alone, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 7,000 tonnes annually and freeing up buses for elsewhere in the region.
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3.6x Counting capital costs AND annual operating expenses of $3.14M, CH2M estimates a lifecycle cost-benefit ratio of 3.6: that means the Burnaby Mountain Link would deliver value more than three-and-ahalf times its cost over the first 25 years.
SFU has 30,000 students, staff and faculty— UniverCity is currently home to 5,000 residents and will welcome nearly 5,000 more.
12,600 Source: CH2M “Burnaby Mountain Gondola Transit Business Case Report”, 2011
The Burnaby Mountain Link would cut travel time from 15 to seven minutes, saving 1.6 million hours annually.
Engineering consultants CH2M estimate the total capital cost to be
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Daily transit users depend on the overcrowded #145 bus route, often having to wait 20 minutes for a ride.
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The SFU Community Trust Endowment Fund (CTEF) provides individual research projects with up to five years of funding, to a maximum of $500,000 per year. As of 2015, CTEF has funded seven major projects aligned with SFU’s Strategic Research Plan. These projects have fostered interdisciplinary collaborations, trained highly qualified students, attracted additional funding nationally and internationally, and advanced SFU’s research excellence and leadership. Impact Spotlight One of the seven projects funded in 2015 was the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology for Medical Application led by SFU Professor and Canada Research Chair Neil Branda. By identifying complementary research strengths and collaborative synergies, Branda’s team took novel molecules and nanomaterials from the chemistry lab into the clinical setting, developing innovative strategies for medical imaging, diagnostics, surgery and drug delivery. The $1.1-million CTEF investment helped SFU establish a strong internal research cluster and attracted an additional $21.69 million in external funding, of which $15.4 million was invested in the Prometheus Project, a national research hub for materials science and engineering innovation and commercialization. Leveraging SFU’s other research infrastructure, including the $40-million materials science facility 4D LABS, the Prometheus partners are already working with internationally recognized industry, government, hospital and academic collaborators, to solve challenges in areas such as energy, health and communications.
SFU Research Continues CTEF projects presently running: • LETS GO: Low-Emission Transportation Systems for Ground Operations, led by Erik Kjeang, Associate Professor, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering. • Seamless Care through Technology: A Focus on Brain Vitality, led by Carolyn Sparrey, Associate Professor, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.
Visit sfu.ca/vpresearch/ctef
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UniverCity Student Projects The Forest Carbon Cycle: Determining the Carbon Sequestration Potential of the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
Green Codes: Alternative Means of Approval when Building Green By: Julia Fryer, 2015
By: Grant Fletcher, 2011 Fletcher examined the forest carbon cycle—the absorption of carbon and dispersion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide— in the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area, assessing the beneficial impact of the 320 hectares of forested land transferred to the City of Burnaby in exchange for the development rights to UniverCity.
Recognizing that Canadian building codes and standards tend to be conservative in adapting new technologies, Fryer assessed the use of alternative measures, such as the Living Building Standard, to promote cutting-edge technology in buildings such as the UniverCity Childcare Centre.
Harvesting Solar Energy on Burnaby Mountain: A prospective report on photovoltaic electricity production at UniverCity
The Economic Feasibility of Affordable Housing at UniverCity
By: Angus Pattison, 2015
By: Arminda Alexander, 2012
Pattison examined the feasibility of installing photovoltaic arrays on the structures and grounds of UniverCity community, and thereby to offset community electrical consumption in a way that had not been done in any urban setting in Western Canada.
Alexander studied the economic feasibility of developing more-affordable housing at UniverCity, assessing the costs and potential returns on investment of three affordable housing development models: reduced rate rental; co-housing; and reduced land lease.
The Energy Proforma: Usefulness and Application By: Maggie Cascadden, 2016
LivingCITY@UniverCity: Proposed Master plan for UniverCity South Neighbourhood By: David Yan, 2012 Yan focused on the development potential for SFU Community Trust’s Phase 5, creating a proposed master plan for the South Neighbourhood in UniverCity.
Cascadden created an Energy Proforma to assess neighbourhood-level energy use and carbon emissions at the neighbourhood scale. Using a tool that was developed as part of the Clean Energy Project in China, Cascadden assessed efficiency, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.
Car Sharing in UniverCity By: Edison Ting, 2016
Sustainable Communities Rating Tool By: Kierstin Bird, 2014 Bird documented a pilot test of the Sustainable Communities Rating (SCORE) Tool, which was designed to provide a snapshot of the community’s environmental performance. The resulting “score” can be compared in subsequent tests to measure progress toward sustainability goals.
Ting worked to identify potential barriers to the use of car sharing, which has been available at UniverCity since 2005, but which has so far attracted a usage rate of less than five percent.
Read Research Reports at: http://univercity.ca/media/research
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The Community Once the site of an isolated commuter campus, Burnaby Mountain is now home to a vibrant community of 5,000 residents and growing. UniverCity embodies all of the amenities you would come to expect in a complete community—shops, services, a grocery store, elementary school and childcare spaces—and is sustainable to boot.
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7 8 6 9 1. Young UniverCity resident enjoying a pancake breakfast. 2. Charter UniverCity residents How Yin and Elsie Leung in the Town Square. 3. University Highlands Elementary school student Carson Wegman casting his handprint at the 5-10-50 Celebration event. 4. UniverCity resident jogging down Cornerstone Mews. 5. Residents enjoying the sunshine at the Town Square. 6. UniverCity/Fast+Epp/HCMA group in front of our team’s CANstruction sculpture Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors. 7. Altitude at dusk. 8. Enjoying lunch in the Town Square. 9. Deciding where to shop and eat at the UniverCity community. 10. Terry Fox Foundation team cheering Terry Fox Run/Walk participants passing The Cornerstone building.
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Understanding that communities gain intangible benefits from public art—interpretation, education, inspiration and aesthetic beauty to name a few—SFU Community Trust has set out to thoughtfully create a platform for both established and emerging artists in order to bring permanent and temporary pieces to the UniverCity community. In a little over 10 years, the Trust has amassed the beginnings of a unique and varied public art collection with the support of its development partners—all of whom have embraced the unique character of the residential community on Burnaby Mountain. Beginning in 2007 with Yellow Fence by Erica Stocking, public art has been purposefully integrated into the design of each parcel of land developed. SFU Community Trust published and continues to update a self-guided book called ARTWALK, which can be picked up complimentary in the Trust offices. It allows for a self-guided tour of the collection including Mayor’s Art Award (City of Vancouver) recipient Devon Knowles, who was recognized in 2015 in the category of Public Art as an Emerging Artist. Devon was commissioned by SFU Community Trust to create a series of street banners—NEAR AS FAR AS FAR AS NEAR— for the UniverCity community. www.univercity.ca/culture-events/univercity-artwalk
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Awards & Recognition 2016 International Living Future Institute JUST Certification for Innovation and Community Service
2012 City of Burnaby – Environment Award Planning and Development for the UniverCity Childcare Centre
2015 City of Burnaby – Environment Award Planning and Development for Phase 4 of the UniverCity Masterplan
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2015 International Living Future Institute Living Building Hero Award
2012 Planning Institute of British Columbia – Award of Excellence for UniverCity Phase 3 Masterplan & Zoning
2007 City of Burnaby – Environment Award for Planning and Development
2011 Canadian Institute of Planners – Award for Planning Excellence: Neighbourhood Planning
2006 Planning Institute of British Columbia – Award of Excellence for Site Planning and Design
2011 Federation of Canadian Municipalities – Sustainable Communities Award for Integrated Neighbourhood Development
2005 Canadian Home Builders Association – SAM Award for Best Community Development in Canada
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CANstruction Vancouver Local Engineering Award, National Award for Structural Ingenuity, and Vancouver People’s Choice Award
2013 Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow – QUEST Community Energy Builder Award 2013 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects – Award of Excellence for the UniverCity Childcare Centre 2013 FortisBC – Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency in New Construction for Origin 2013 CaGBC National Leadership Awards – Green Building Champion Award (UniverCity Childcare Centre) 2013
Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association – Ovation Award Best Multi-Family Low rise Development for Origin
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Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association – Ovation Award Excellence in Energy Efficiency in New Construction: Multi-Family for Origin
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Vancouver Regional Construction Association – Silver Award of Excellence Sustainable Construction category for the UniverCity Childcare Centre
Urban Development Institute – Award for Excellence in Urban Development Best Sustainable for UniverCity Childcare Centre
2007 Urban Development Institute – Award to The Verdant @ UniverCity for Innovations in Creating More Sustainable Development 2007 Urban Development Institute – Award to The Verdant @ UniverCity for Innovations in Creating More Affordable Housing
2009 Urban Land Institute – Award for Excellence: The Americas for Best Practice in Design, Architecture and Development
2005 Canadian Home Builders Association – Georgie Award to The Cornerstone for Best Environmental Consideration and Energy Efficiency
2008 CMHC – Best Practices in Affordable Housing Award for The Verdant @ UniverCity
2005 Association of University Real Estate Officials (AUREO) – Award of Excellence
2008 LivCom Awards – Gold Award and third place-ranking overall in the Sustainable Projects Category
2005 City of Burnaby – Environment Award for Planning and Development for The Cornerstone
2008 City of Burnaby – Environment Award for Planning and Development for The Verdant @ UniverCity
2005 Urban Development Institute – Award for Excellence in Urban Development for The Cornerstone
2008 American Planning Association – National Excellence Award for Innovation in Green Community Planning 2007 Urban Development Institute – Award for Innovations in Creating a More Livable & Sustainable Region
2005 Burnaby Board of Trade – Newsmaker of the Year Award 2005 BC Hydro Power Smart Excellence Award – Residential Building Developer for The Cornerstone
www.univercity.ca/media/ awards-accolades
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