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Do you think it's possible to get influence from a regenerative building and adopt pro-environmental behaviour in your lifestyle?

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CIRS inhabitants have been persuaded by the utility, efficiency and common good or moral rightness caused by the amenities of the building.

Inhabitants get used to a pro-environmental behaviour because they have experienced for a long time, so they are expected to feel comfortable and replicate pro-environmental functions.

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In the same way, inhabitants were satisfied with the effects caused by CIRS in their well-being, productivity and health.

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Coleman found a high satisfaction level in almost all of the aspects about CIRS

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Coleman made 55 surveys and 26 interviews to different inhabitants of CIRS.
The aim of the surveys and interviews was collect information about the different levels of satisfaction:
*Life, job/degree, relationships in work place
*Health: symptoms at office. Is CIRS influencing health?
*Productivity
*Travel time to CRS
*Expectations met

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Analyze the social impact of a regenerative building.
*How the interaction of CIRS and its inhabitants produces a pro-environmental behaviour?

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Net-positive idea recognises the aim of reducing negative environmental impacts and the aim of enhancing the positive impacts of the individual and collective activity; environmentally, socially and economically.

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Centre of Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Living Lab on University of British Columbia.

CIRS was designed to target net-positive outcomes in four resources metrics: energy (through renewables and synergistic use of waste heat from a neighbouring building), operational carbon (carbon emitted through operating the building), structural carbon (more carbon sequestered in its structure than the total carbon emitted through construction, decommissioning, and embodied in all the equipment within the building), and water (through rainwater harvesting, storage, and onsite treatment).

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Quick example to understand the NEW approach. Regenerative Buildings.

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Quick example to understand the NEW approach. Regenerative Buildings.

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A sustainable building is the one who reduces its energy consumption.
A regenerative building is the one that reduces its energy consumption AND generate its own energy with solar cells.

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But first, what is a regenerative building?

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But first, what is a regenerative building?

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'Regenerative building' is the term used to buildings designed thru regenerative principles and paradigms. In different words buildings designed as 'net-positive' which means that not only reduces the negative environmental impact, it also operate to reverse damage and cause a positive impact on the environment.

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Normalizing Sustainability in a Regenerative Building: the Social Practice of Being at CIRS

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Normalizing Sustainability in a Regenerative Building: the Social Practice of Being at CIRS

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A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

BY SYLVIA COLEMAN