Projects

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Piloting the future

Campus as a Living Lab uses university infrastructure, assets and resources to support innovative and applied research projects that improve our communities, region and world. They pilot new ideas, advance faculty research agendas and interdisciplinary collaborations, have an operational benefit for the university, and create opportunities for student learning and knowledge exchanges.

CLL projects link research to action. They include large-scale innovative capital projects with strong research programs, academic-industry partnerships advancing R&D for new technologies, specialized applied research programs within a variety of disciplines, real-world scale research infrastructure supporting broad range of academic research and operational benefits, and innovative student learning opportunities and programs connected to operational priorities.

Find out more these projects, and what we have learned from them.

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CLL Fund recipients

Browse our collection of projects by the recipients of previous CLL Fund Competition awards. These projects demonstrate collaborations between UBC faculty and staff, and were awarded seed funding to pilot new ideas.
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Capital projects

These significant capital projects are testing innovations and supporting robust research programs, often through major partnerships with government and industry, to impact local, regional, and global sustainability.
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Featured projects
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Creating an inclusive, climate and COVID-resilient outdoor learning space @ UBC
The project aims to construct a pavilion that will serve as a place for gathering, communal learning, and inclusion for all future students. The project will also provide a new model for flexible, outdoor, liminal spaces for learning on the UBC campus.
Urban Forest Technologies Team deployed drones to capture urban forestry characteristics which would improve management of natural urban systems.
5G Natural Asset Management
The 5G Natural Asset Management and Integration project uses UBC campus to pilot the deployment of smart technologies for the management and planning of natural assets in support of healthier, climate resilient and sustainable communities.
A mass timber building with locally-fabricated CLT panels houses the facility.
Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility
UBC’s Bioenergy Research Demonstration Facility (BRDF) reduces UBC’s GHG emissions by turning waste wood biomass into clean energy and supports research on alternative energy technology.
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Project Library

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Living Lab for Water Sustainability at UBC Farm

The project aims to conduct water monitoring and evaluate water use reduction strategies to minimize the water footprint of agriculture at UBC Farm and support UBC’s Water Action Plan.

Natural Resources
Production, Consumption & Waste
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Community Food Hub

The Community Food Hub project aims to promote food security on campus by using a student-driven, research-led approach prioritizing community needs to provide support services and programs on the Vancouver campus.

Human Wellbeing & Social Systems
Production, Consumption & Waste
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5G Data-Driven Natural Asset Management and Integration

The 5G Natural Asset Management and Integration project uses UBC campus to pilot the deployment of smart technologies for the management and planning of natural assets (e.g. trees, ecosystems), in support of healthier, climate resilient and sustainable communities.

Data & Technology
Ecological Systems
Natural Resources