Wood WORKS! British Columbia MULTI-UNIT RESIDENTIAL WOOD DESIGN Oliver Lang, LWPAC Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture Monad, Vancouver A prototype for the sustainable METROPOLIS OF CHANGE, the Monad project has been designed and developed to serve as an urban infill prototype. It addresses the inherent contradic- tion of our time: The need for broad sustainability, or to endure and evolve in an ecological and meaningful way, in a world of rapid change and tremendous urban growth and transformation. The built project is in many ways a first of its kind and demon- strates innovative spatial logics and construction systems that create highly sustainable and adaptable urban infill solutions in order to make city living a more desirable alternative to commut- ing and unsustainably large single family homes. The project presents innovation by creating multi-storey, prefabricated, en- gineered wood-frame modules and building systems for parallel construction and resource management for mixed-use residen- tial buildings. COMMERCIAL WOOD DESIGN McFarland Marceau Architects Ltd., Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility, Vancouver The Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF) is a 1,950 sq. m. heavy timber-framed co- generation project on the UBC Vancouver campus. In collaboration with Nexterra and General Electric, UBC commissioned this combined heat and power (CHP) plant to supply the campus grid with clean, renewable heat and power through biomass gasification. The CHP plant will produce two megawatts of electricity (enough to power 1,500 homes) and 8 per cent of the UBC base steam power load by using syngas ex- tracted from wood chips and municipal wood trimmings. UBC greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by 4,500 tonnes annually with 12 per cent of the campus natural gas heating demand displaced. The BRDF is the first cogeneration plant of its kind in North America that produces heat and power for a university campus. Funding partners included NRCan, the Province of BC, FP Innovations, BC Bioenergy Network and Sustain- able Development Technologies Canada.