Greening Operations: Energy
BCIT manages its energy on the Burnaby Campus through a comprehensive program covering lighting, heating, and equipment (including auto-timers, boilers, compressed air systems, efficient lights, and "lights out" procedures). Energy conservation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts began in 1990.
Visit
Facilities Management - Energy for more details, or download the Energy Management Plan PDFs for 2001 or 2006 from
Policies & Documents.
BCIT is also engaged in renewable energy research, using the campus as a
living lab of sustainability. Energy
projects include our Burnaby Campus solar Power Tower, and the Intelligent Micro-Grid. As well, the BCIT "
greening IT" project aims to reduce the energy used for information technology at BCIT through education and specific initiatives.
For Burnaby campus, Total Direct Energy accounts for 18% of the total ecological footprint (2,886 ha). Of this, hydro-electricity accounts for 14% (266 ha), and natural gas consumption 86% (2,620 ha).
Direct Energy
Electricity: 29.18 GWh
Natural Gas: 33.05 GWh
Direct Energy: 8,226 tCO2e
The BCIT Burnaby Campus' energy intensity is 1.31 GJ/m2, and an average British Columbia college has a University energy intensity of 1.31 GJ/m2 to 1.56 GJ/m2.
The total ecological footprint for Burnaby campus is 4,249 ha (55 times
the size of the Burnaby campus – equal to one-third of Burnaby!). BCIT’s overall aspirational goal is to reduce our energy and material consumption by 75%.
What we aspire to achieve: