UBC students construct one of Canada's first 'carbon-minimal' hempcrete buildings
Hempcrete captures carbon from the atmosphere as it set and turns to a concrete-like material
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Hempcrete captures carbon from the atmosphere as it set and turns to a concrete-like material
As the project’s architecture lead, Theall guided a team of 60 university students from engineering, architecture, business and arts to fundraise $1.85 million…
Called the Third Space Commons, the project was led by Third Quadrant Design, UBC’s first green building design team. The group is comprised of 60 students from the Faculty of Applied Science and the Sauder School of Business. The building is a wooden structure spanning 2,400 square feet, made...
The 222-square-metre building, called Third Space Commons, is one of Canada’s first such institutional spaces designed to be near-zero carbon.
Hempcrete captures carbon from the atmosphere as it set and turns to a concrete-like material