Olympic Village Public Realm Study With partners, the elementslab conducted an observational study of people using the public realm at the Olympic Village in Vancouver, BC to evaluate if the design goals and strategies were being met in practice. Project Profile Research TeamCynthia GirlingKejia ZhengMarjan EbneshahidiHanyu Gao The public realm of the Olympic Village was …
Wesbrook Place: A Case Study elementslab evaluated Wesbrook Place, an intentional sustainable neighbourhood against measures such as compactness, completeness, connectivity, quality of habitat, land cover, impervious surfaces and tree canopy cover. Project Profile SponsorA UBC SEEDS Study elementsLab TeamCynthia GirlingAnezka GocovaVanessa GoldgrubNicole Sylvia This post-occupancy study looks at Wesbrook Place, an intentional sustainable neighbourhood, nine …
Integrating Building-Scale and Geospatial Tools elementslab developed methods for converting building models from multiple different software formats into the CityGML standard, and examined the implications of CityGML’s levels of detail (LOD) for building and urban energy simulation. Project Profile SponsorNatural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)Esri Canada elementsLab TeamSheryl Staub-FrenchRonald KellettJon SalterVictor NgoYunpiao BaiNicole SylviaDaniel Espinosa …
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