Program: High Performance Buildings
Sustainable civil engineers with a blend of architecture, regulatory, technical, and business knowledge to help you push forward your next major green or high performance project.
Take your career to new heights through an interdisciplinary approach to building design.
High Performance Buildings Courses
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Explore UBC’s MEL in High Performance Buildings, a unique blend of 60% technical courses and 40% business courses. Learn from leading experts, engage in hands-on projects, and build expertise in sustainable building design and regenerative…
High Performance Buildings Program Details
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UBC’s MEL in High Performance Buildings equips engineers and architects with the skills to lead integrated design teams, creating resilient and sustainable buildings.
High Performance Buildings
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Transform your career. This interdisciplinary program integrates architecture courses in green building design, engineering courses in energy modelling and design, and business courses in organizational leadership and strategy.
Building engineers bring resilience to building design
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Discover UBC’s Master of Engineering Leadership in High Performance Buildings. Learn how to design resilient, sustainable buildings and lead the future of green construction.
Designing a building in the Arctic
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Four MEL students completed a capstone project to design a multipurpose building at the world’s northernmost airport.
Regenerative architecture: building for resilience and sustainability
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Regenerative architecture is an approach that encourages architects and engineers to address global challenges, such as climate change and sustainability, in the design and development of buildings.
Why study sustainable architecture?
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The building sector is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, making it an important area of focus for cities, regions and nations striving to reach fast-approaching net-zero targets. Architect engineers who adopt new…
HPB students compete in international design competition
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MEL in HPB students designed an energy system for Vancouver Waldorf School's new building for Solar Decathlon Design Challenge.
Proposing retrofits to an historic building in Istanbul
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For her capstone project, MEL HPB student Ezgi offered suggestions for retrofitting Taskisla - a 170-year-old building in Istanbul.