General Principles
Background
The UBC Technical Guidelines were created within the context of, and to implement the principles and goals of, the following University policies and planning documents:
- UBC Official Community Plan - July 1997 (OCP)
- UBC Comprehensive Community Plan October 2000 (CCP)
- A Legacy and a Promise: Principles for Physical Planning at UBC
- Trek 2010, A Global Journey
- UBC Main Campus Plan - 1992
- UBC Landscape Plan
- UBC Policy #5: Sustainable Development
- UBC Policy #6: Environmental Protection Compliance
- UBC Policy #7: University Safety
- UBC Building Operations - Facility & Infrastructure Management Plan
- UBC Strategic Transportation Plan - November 1999
All of these envision sustainability strategies for UBC lands, where "UBC will provide leadership by demonstrating the means to a sustainable community, including setting new standards for design, construction and operations".
Documents
Official Community Plan (OCP) - July 1997
By the GVRD, this OCP covers land use and transportation objectives:
- Maintain a Viable Green Zone
- Build complete communities within a compact area (ref. land use plan)
- Encourage transit preferred transportation (ref transportation plan)
- Environmental Soundness
This is primarily a planning document, but it does emphasize that the University is a complete community enveloping all walks of life. This community is to be universally accommodated in design.
Technical Impact
- tree and vegetation retention required
- transit and cyclist facilities
- services address energy conservation
UBC Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP) - October 2000
The Comprehensive Community Plan:
- fulfills the OCP requirement for Local Area Planning over 8 local areas
- principles set out that further develop the OCP (circulation, open space, urban form,
timing, housing tenure)
- tree managements
- servicing strategies
Technical Impact
- safety and security measures in access to facilities
- diversity of use / mixed use - suggests adaptability of buildings and sites
- oedestrian weather protection (4.4)
- structural soils for trees in high water areas (not pits)
- reduced water use and connectivity to the environment in the water cycle
- reduce potable water at lawn irrigation
- recycled water for toilets, laundry and irrigation
- water saving plumbing
- rainwater collection and roof top storage of rain water (flow reduction)
- water meters in new buildings
- establish and maintain ground and surface water flows to provide a sustained base flow
- establish pollutant controls (interceptors?)
- reduce ground water infiltration at unstable cliff sites
Sustainability strategies include:
- ensure building form and design provides for long life of building through
selection of materials and systems
- lower demand on resources and consumption
- recycle rainwater
- recycle gray water
- optimize solar benefit for energy savings
- building materials that can be recycled
- use of new (innovative) technologies for reduced energy use including
demonstration projects
A Legacy and a Promise - Physical Planning at UBC
A Legacy and a Promise - Physical Planning at UBC holds eight Key Principles for evaluating proposed physical changes within the University Lands:
- Each physical change is to enrich and complete the whole campus.
- Build a vibrant and ever-changing community.
- Strong, positive and enduring places to remember.
- Demonstrate the means to a sustainable community (environmental responsibility) and in harmony with the natural setting.
- Maintain the 1,000 acres land endowment in perpetuity.
- Evaluate from a world perspective (aesthetic, social, economic and ecological).
- Global leadership opportunities.
- Collaborate with the community.
The Key Principles "will be the standard or screen by which all development – large or small, new or renovated – is measured".
Trek 2010: A Global Journey
From Trek 2010:
The University of British Columbia will provide its students, faculty, and staff with the best possible resources and conditions for learning and research.
UBC Main Campus Plan - 1992
The UBC Main Campus Plan is the planning guideline for the development of the academic core including strategies for evaluating and implementing projects. This generally deals with the planning, use, density, siting and exterior aspects of the building.
Values within the Main Campus Plan incvlude quality construction for permanence and economy, and leadership in environmental responsibility.
Technical Impact
- dominant exterior material to be masonry, avoid concrete (p. 74)
- flexibility for changes in use (p. 75)
- Universal Access refers to a Campus Accessibility Plan (p. 82)
- Lighting Standards refer to UBC Lighting Masterplan (p. 94)
- "Development Process" to be keyed into the Technical QC Process (p.114)
- "Project Design Checklist Item 16 Technical Performance" covers life cycle costing, indoor environment and noise (p.118)
UBC Landscape Plan
The UBC Landscape Plan includes landscaping Practices and Standards and Maintenance Standards.
UBC Policies
UBC Policies communicate policies and procedures which have university-wide application and provide a basis for decision making. See:
- Policy #5: Sustainable Development
- Policy #6: Environmental Protection Compliance
- Policy #7: University Safety (direction on WCB and WHMIS as minimum standards)
UBC Building Operations Facility & Infrastructure Management Plan
The UBC Building Operations Facility & Infrastructure Management Plan – "Investing in Renewal" – addresses specific strategies for operations, maintenance and capital renewal of facilities.
UBC Strategic Transportation Plan - November 1999
The UBC Strategic Transportation Plan includes 55 core policies on Transportation Demand Management (TDM):
- strategies to facilitate reduced air pollution, noise, collisions, congestion, delays
and stress – on campus and to/from campus – for UBC commuters, visitors and
truckers
- scope covers building and community design, site traffic management, parking and
heavy trucking
- technical guidelines on U-Pass, transit, carpool, bicycling, telecommuting and other
alternatives to single occupant vehicles (SOVs)
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