Job Opportunities at the GVRD
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Greater Vancouver Regional District Sustainability Report
The Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) is a federation of 21 member municipalities and one Elctoral Area that make up the metropolitan region of Greater Vancouver. The population of the GVRD is approximately 2 million people. The GVRD began its … Continue reading
Best Practices
The seriousness and immediacy of the environmental issues we now face are such that Sustainable Design can no longer remain the preserve of a small number of specialists and enthusiasts. Building owners and users will increasingly demand higher standards of … Continue reading
Cloverdale Sanitary Sewer Overflow Storage Facility
Sustainability 2003 Award Winner As part of the Liquid Waste Management Plan, the GVRD is working to further reduce discharges of sanitary sewage to the environment. To manage sanitary sewer overflows in Cloverdale, the GVRD has designed a unique storage … Continue reading
Brunette Fraser Greenway
Sustainability 2003 Award Winner A common-sense idea to turn utility corridors into greenways has proven so successful that the GVRD hopes to make it part of a regional strategy for the Lower Mainland. Greenways are green walks, trails and pathways … Continue reading
SEE Gen Burnaby Incinerator
Sustainability 2003 Award Winner The tall red and white striped exhaust stack of the GVRD’s Waste-to-Energy Facility (WTEF) in Burnaby is a new flag of sustainability in the GVRD. Built in 1988 to handle over 20% of the region’s solid … Continue reading
Little Mountain Reservoir Reconstruction
Sustainability 2003 Award Winner Sustainable demolition may sound like a contradiction in terms, but sustainability guides the demolition and reconstruction of the 175 million litre Little Mountain Reservoir in Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park. Built in 1911, the reservoir stores water … Continue reading
Sustainability Now Vol 3 No 1: Awards
This special issue of Sustainability Now describes the APEGBC Sustainability Award recipient. The Sustainability Award was created to recognize the important contribution that engineering and geoscience make to the well being of human life and the ecosystem on which we … Continue reading
GVRD Sustainable Region Initiative
The Sustainable Region Initiative (SRI) is a comprehensive approach to building a pleasant, prosperous, and resilient future for the citizens of Greater Vancouver… The Sustainable Region Initiative will provide a framework, vision and action plan for the GVRD based on … Continue reading
Better Buildings for Greater Vancouver
The Better Buildings portal, initiated by the GVRD and its partners, provides a one stop source for building-related information resources in the Lower Mainland. Topics: Case studies, environmental information, financial incentives and programs, online forum, and weblinks.weblink: betterbuildings.ca • from: … Continue reading