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DESIGN AND PLANNING OF THE OLYMPIC ATHLETES' VILLAGE - A NEW PARADIGM IN PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN GREEN BUILDING
Diana Klein PEng
9:00 am - 10:15 am
After a decade of planning, open houses and public input, the vision of the South-East False Creek public lands is being realized. This project is a fusion of this vision between the City of Vancouver and the Millennium Development Team. In this presentation, the process, journey and strategies for the project will be portrayed setting the stage for future development in Vancouver.GVRD’s WASTE-TO-ENERGY FACILITY IN BURNABY
Fred Nenninger PEng, Chantal Babensee PEng
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Since coming online in 1988, Metro Vancouver's Waste-to-Energy facility has played an essential role in the region's integrated waste management system. This session will discuss how the facility, operated by Montenay Inc, ensures solid waste is disposed of in an environmentally safe manner and generates renewable and valuable energy in the form of steam and electricity.BC HYDRO AND CLEAN ENERGY: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADDITIONAL CAPACITY AT REVELSTOKE GENERATING STATION
Ken McKenzie PEng
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
The addition of a fifth unit at Revelstoke Generating Station is the largest capacity addition project recently undertaken by BC Hydro and has the lowest environmental impact of any currently available alternative. This presention will describe the scope of the project, the environmental impacts associated with Unit 5, and provide details on the extensive stakeholder engagement and environmental review and approvals completed prior to initiating construction.THE SECOND LAW AND CLIMATE CHANGE – HUMANITY AS DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURE
William Rees PhD
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Ecology sees the 'human enterprise' as a far-from-equilibrium dissipative structure. It can grow and maintain itself in a 'far-from-equilibrium' (low-entropy) state only by consuming resource gradients found in nature and dissipating degraded energy and matter (entropy) into the ecosphere. Climate change is just one inevitable by-product of this irreversible process.
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Please note the Important Dates below:
October 27
