SBC’s Better Buildings Boot Camp is happening August 23-27: Applications are open now!

This Boot Camp (BBBC) is an opportunity for diploma and graduate students from a variety of disciplines, as well as faculty, staff, and professionals, to work together collaboratively through the integrated design and delivery process to develop more sustainable buildings.

This program was created with input from sustainable building subject matter experts and faculty from Carleton University, George Brown College, Ryerson University, Seneca College, University of Toronto, and York University.

Submit your application here: http://bit.ly/BBBC-Application

Learn more about Sustainable Buildings Canada’s BBBC here: http://bit.ly/BBBootCamp-2021

WHY BUILDINGS MATTER

We spend 90% of our time in the buildings we live and work in, and buildings account for nearly 40% percent of worldwide GHG‘s. How a building is designed, built, maintained, operated and used can have significant financial, environmental and social impact. In order to affect real change, a holistic and integrated understanding of and approach to the built environment is required, including multiple stakeholders. To do this, Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) has organized a “Better Buildings Boot Camp” to bring together graduate and diploma students to learn how they can take responsibility for better buildings in the future. Better Buildings have a meaningful impact on our society.

The goal is to include students from a variety of backgrounds, institutions and fields of study, including but not limited to architecture, design, engineering, building science, and environment as well as business, social sciences, liberal arts, construction, etc.  All disciplines are welcome since we will all live and work in buildings and therefore have something to contribute.

THE WEEK-LONG VIRTUAL BOOT CAMP

The program format will mirror an extended integrated design workshop, providing students with hands on experience of preparing for and participating in this process. The week-long virtual on-line program will run from August 23–27, 9 am to 3 pm. For the Boot Camp, a new building has been identified, and students will be invited to review the project’s design and planning documentation, see a video tour of the building site, and, if interested, take part in creating the pre-workshop energy model to reflect the energy use, GHG emissions, and operating costs of the building in advance of the camp.

Submit your application here: http://bit.ly/BBBC-Application

Learn more about Sustainable Buildings Canada’s BBBC here: http://bit.ly/BBBootCamp-2021

Any questions regarding the Boot Camp? Please contact SBC at BootCamp@sbcanada.org

About

Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) was established in 2002 as a not-for-profit, non-share, capital corporation. Leveraging the expertise of our hands-on members as practitioners as well as our industry network, SBC delivers a number of core activities which include education, training, research, and program services to utility, government, and agencies.  Supported by a Board representing sector stakeholders, SBC seeks to enhance the energy and environmental performance of the built environment independent from the alignment with rating systems or related assessment tools.

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