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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(Re)imagining Indigenous Centred UBC Campus Recreation

This project approaches Campus as a Living Lab and Place. Also referred to as simply, Campus as a Living Place. It aspires to re-imagine UBC recreation through an Indigenous sense of place, where the campus is a vibrant and interconnected meeting place that is open to the community.

Human Wellbeing & Social Systems
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Building a Carbon Capture and Conversion Ecosystem

This Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) ecosystem project explores the potential application of these new technologies on the UBC Vancouver campus, with the aim of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions reductions. 

Climate Change & Energy
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Designing Student-Family Housing for Wellbeing

This project will contribute to the creation of resilient design solutions for the UBC Vancouver campus neighborhood of Acadia Park. Through the use of design charettes — intensive, hands-on workshops that bring together community members and people from diverse disciplines — residents will explore different options for future development.

Built Environment & Mobility
Human Wellbeing & Social Systems
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Digital Detection Web for On-Campus Insects

The Digital Detection Web project will deploy insect monitoring devices (involving high-resolution optics, machine learning, and the Internet of Things) to understand how changes in insect population indicate changes in local biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Data & Technology
Ecological Systems