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This ZEBx Decarb Lunch will explore how zero carbon buildings can be delivered faster, more efficiently, and with stronger performance outcomes through prefabrication, integrated modelling, and mass timber innovation. The Royal Roads University John Horgan Campus building is a recently completed (summer 2025) 5-storey academic building with a full mass timber structure and an innovative prefabricated wall panel system. The project is all electric, ZCB Design certified, and designed to comply with LEED v4.
Presenters will highlight practical and transferable solutions relevant to mainstream projects. For example, how a kit-of-parts façade strategy reduced thermal bridging, improved airtightness continuity, protected CLT slab edges from moisture risk, and replaced conventional curtain wall components with lower-carbon timber alternatives.
From proposal to installation in just seven months, this session explores how digital modelling, prefabrication workflows, and early-stage coordination made the project possible. Attendees will gain actionable insights into what made the project buildable, the setbacks encountered, and how similar prefabricated approaches can be adapted to mainstream developments, making it ideal for developers, designers, contractors, owners, and policy professionals seeking practical pathways to faster, lower-carbon construction.
Speakers:
Director, Building Performance
hcma architecture + design
Elise is a senior advisor, architect, and building scientist with 12 years of experience, specializing in low energy and low carbon, sustainable design. At hcma, Elise is responsible for overseeing building performance across the firm’s portfolio. She helps establish early-stage goals and targets, sets building and project performance strategies, and analyzes the impact of design decisions on these outcomes. She works to effectively navigate the complex landscape of energy codes, regulations, policy, and funding opportunities on behalf of clients for exceptional project outcomes. Elise also leads the firm’s in-house Passive House consulting services, utilizing her hands-on experience with multiple Passive House certified projects.
Mass Timber Consultant
Stantec Consulting Ltd
Simon is a project manager specializing in sustainable and mass timber projects, with expertise in zero emissions design, low-carbon construction, and BIM coordination. Drawing on his background in construction management, he strengthens consultant–contractor collaboration and advances design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) strategies. Simon is passionate about building stronger communities by connecting design, engineering, and construction teams to deliver innovative, high-performing, and sustainable buildings.
Co-hosts:
Alex Hebert, ZEB Learning Centre Manager, BCIT
Thank you to BC Hydro and the City of Vancouver for the financial support that enables us to make this event free of charge.
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Event Location
Online
Vancouver BC
Canada
