The Facilities Department encompasses many areas of the UNBC Administration.  It's main office is located in the Agora next to the Dining Room in 7-304.  This area houses the Director of Facilities Management and staff.  We provide Facilities Services, Project Services, Key Requests & Returns.

 

 

The Bio Energy Plant and the Power Plant are home to our shift engineers.  The Plant Maintenance Building is home to our maintenance personnel.  To submit a maintenance request please click here.

 

 

UNBC Facilities, with the assistance of Aleza Lake Research Forest Society professional staff, will be undertaking forest management treatments on UNBC Forest Lands to address high priority beetle-killed and other stands on campus this summer. The 2010 activities will specifically target “urban interface” forest areas directly adjacent to or close to buildings, roads, parking areas, and established pedestrian routes. These activities will have 3 key goals:

 

• Several designated treatment areas are proposed:
  
  1)    A four hectare patch south of the Northern Sports Centre (across University Way);
  2)    The greenbelt area between UNBC daycare/residences and the biomass plan access road; and
  3)    Multiple areas of forested greenbelt adjacent to roads and buildings on the southern half of campus
  
  These proposed treatments are described in the attached map.   
  
  Additional enquiries as well as written comments are welcome and can be provided via email to aleza@unbc.ca, with the subject heading: UNBC 2010 Forest Treatments or contact us by phone ext. 6339.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
• The I. K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab Pellet Research Project has been up and running since June 2009.  This $500,000 project has been funded by Western Economic Diversification as part of its Community Economic Diversification Initiative.  The project is a partnership between UNBC, the Wood Pellet Association of Canada and the local pellet producers to heat the I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab with wood pellets for a year.  This will allow for assessment of the technology in terms of delivery, energy production and emissions.  
• The Bio Energy Project has been funded with $15.7M from both provincial and federal government funding sources to install a biomass gasification system that will provide heat to the core campus buildings and offset an estimated 85% of current natural gas consumption.  The technology is being provided by Nexterra Energy of B.C., which has installed similar equipment elsewhere in B.C. and at the University of South Carolina.  In fact, tests are showing that emissions from the gasification system are the same or lower than emissions from natural gas, meaning this project could have the dual benefit of cleaning the air while also combating climate change.  The facility will be located to the west of the I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab and has road access that follows the B.C. Hydro right-of-way to the west of campus.  The project will be complete in March 2011. 
• The Infrastructure Project will upgrade the University heating and cooling infrastructure.  The $5.0M project was funded by provincial and federal funding.  This work will increase the efficiency of the current heating and cooling distribution system.  It will also create the infrastructure for future development and expansion of the campus. It will be done in six stages: 

             a)  The Dr.  Donald Rix Health Sciences Centre to the Library

             b)  The Agora Courtyard

             c)  The Research Lab to the Power Plant

             d)  Replace the PVC chilled piping in the existing Power Plant

             e)  Replace the PVC chilled piping from the Power Plant to the Agora

              f)  Install a second water feed to the campus from the Ring Road

 

Contact the Facilities Department at 960-6407 to book a tour of the Bio Energy Plant.                Visitors must be 18 years of age or older and must wear long pants and footwear suitable for a work site.