Come for the selfie, stay for the sustainability

Third Quadrant Design team For Lou Corpuz-Bosshart UBC students built a hempcrete building that is one of the first 'carbon-minimal' institutional buildings in Canada. Bonus - it's Instagram worthy. This week, UBC welcomes students into a vibrant new teaching and learning space that is one of Canada's first institutional spaces designed to be near-zero embodied carbon. It's also the first such building designed by students. The bright and airy 2,400-sq.-ft. wood frame building, called Third Space Commons , emitted nearly-zero carbon emissions during construction, a feat that many view to be the final frontier facing carbon emissions reductions across the global building industry. Virtually every material, construction technique and design element of the project was chosen for its ability to lower or even capture carbon emissions.