Location: Vancouver, BC Completion: 2011
Area: 5,992 SM (23,400 SF)
In response to the global challenge of building a more sustainable society, CIRS will be the most innovative and high performance building built in North America, demonstrating leading edge green building design products, technologies, and systems. CIRS will be a state-of-the-art "living-lab" in which researchers from leading academic institutions can perform interactive research on and assessment of current and future building systems and technologies. Partners from private and public sectors will share the research facility, working with CIRS researchers to ensure research conducted is connected to real world needs of the community, industry, and policy makers. The outcome of research, product and policy development manifested from CIRS will play a fundamental role in accelerating the path to sustainability.