Context
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability will be a space for multidisciplinary education and research, and one of the greenest buildings on earth, living within the resources and energy flow available within the site and surroundings.
Rather than simply reducing its environmental impact, CIRS will source energy from the ground and scavenge heat from neighbouring buildings, generate electricity from the sun, obtain ventilation from the wind, harvest its water from the rain, and recycle its waste water for re-use for flushing toilets and irrigation of the green roof and wall.
Construction on the CIRS Solar Aquatics System was completed on October 28, 2011. The CIRS SAS will not merely treat the sewage but reclaim the water for re-use. Contaminants will be metabolized, ammonia will be oxidized into nitrate and then directly metabolized by algae and higher plants.
The clean reclaimed water will then be recirculated for the flushing of toilets and the irrigation of the green roof and wall, as well as the irrigation of the landscape.
For more information please visit the UBC CIRS website (click here.)
Click here to download summery of the UBC reclaimed water system.
Located on University of British Columbia
Point Grey campus, Vancouver, BC
Temperate Climate
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