Cash windfall drives college expansion

The Cyber Infrastructure Project took $5-million to build, with just pursuant to this agreement half coming from KIP. Technicians recently wrapped up the work, having replaced all the copper wiring running from the facilities to the satellites with fibre optic cable and retrofitted all the facilities with structured cable to handle the high speeds. The project as well included 25 satellite discs for increased bandwidth and a dedicated videoconferencing network, an Internet Protocol phone system and six video-conference terminals.

The architects behind the 7,000 square-metre building

The architects behind the 7,000 square-metre building, CEI Architectural Planning Interiors, designed it with a net-zero energy and water consumption. The building feeds back electricity to the Penticton grid and exchanges grey water for potable water with the city. The building was constructed with locally sourced materials, including pine beetle-killed wood, geo-thermal energy, solar heating, mirror tubes to bring in natural light where there are no windows and a metered lighting system to minimize electrical lighting.

The building will as well offer itself as a live subject in sustainable technologies, having become part of a network of colleges across Canada looking at how these features adapt to different climate regions. Additionally, one of the building’s labs offers students their own geo-thermal then to study how heat is derived from deep below the building, with others able to fully see how the metering system is managed.

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