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Sustainable buildings on campus

New building projects must use UC's听UC Design Guidelines 9 Environmentally Sustainable Design. UC is a proud member of the New 九州影院Green Building Council.

This page profiles the sustainability features of existing green buildings on campus, which include;

• Haere-roa (UCSA building)
• Ernest Rutherford Ground Source Heat Pump Project (more details are coming soon)

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Opened in July 2019, the听UCSA听building, Haere-roa, includes student welfare and advocacy spaces, an outdoor amphitheatre overlooking the 艑takaro Avon River, as well as club, meeting, hospitality, office and event spaces.

In July 2017听the UCSA announced the building's name, Haere-roa, which translates to the longest stream or the long wanderer. It recognises the UCSA building as a space that hosts and welcomes people. The name has been gifted to the UCSA by mana whenua, Ng膩i T奴膩huriri and is linked to the 艑t膩karo Avon River, which flows past the UCSA site.

Key sustainability features of this building include:

• Haere-roa was听built on a brownfield site, replacing the Ilam Student Union听building which was damaged during the 2011 earthquakes.
• Haere-roa is听heated with renewable energy听in the form of a ground-source heat-pump system. These pumps draw stable, latent heat from the ground through the building.听
• The building has听interior and exterior 鈥業nnowood鈥� cladding听(a low VOC formaldehyde emission, recycled product).听
• Carpet tiles are made from recycled material, in no recognisable pattern allowing partial replacements without need for full replacement.听
• 5,782 native plants were planted around Haere-roa听between late-2019 and early-2020 in collaboration with the Christchurch City Council鈥檚 waterways partnership. This has helped improve the ecological health, indigenous biodiversity and the amenity value of our local urban waterways.听

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Ernest Rutherford: Ground Source Heat Pump Project

UC will become carbon net neutral by 2030 and is completing work on campus from 2022 to progress towards this target. Since July 2022, UC has progressively been installing ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) to allow heating to new buildings and is currently retrofitting them to efficiently heat as many existing buildings as possible.听听

Four buildings on UC's Ilam campus will be converted to GSHPs. This will involve drilling four new bores in the middle of campus 鈥� two for extracting water and two for returning water to the ground 鈥� as well as a plant room next to Ernest Rutherford building.

More information on this project is coming soon.

Learn more about UC's carbon net neutral work听here.