Energy. Environment. Experiential Learning (EEEL)

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta

Located at the University of Calgary, Energy. Environment. Experiential Learning (EEEL) is a five-storey undergraduate teaching facility that allows students to learn in an experiential and hands-on environment. Placing a large emphasis on informal learning, the building centers on a 'social stair' that facilitates interaction and interdisciplinary collaboration. In keeping with the goals of the project to put ‘science on display’, EEEL includes undergraduate classrooms and labs that are fully glazed to the corridor beyond to encourage curiosity and engage passersby. The project incorporates a number of solar control strategies, such as solar shutters that actively track the sun to provide fully daylit interior spaces and sculpted aluminum spandrel panels, which are positioned to address individual facade conditions and act as an effective solar collector.

Designed with Dialog, EEEL contains approximately 75,350 square feet of teaching laboratories and 26,910 square feet of classroom and seminar space. Area is also provided for up to 33,000 square feet of future research labs. The structural module and arrangement of the building systems allows the university long-term flexibility to convert spaces efficiently from one use to another.

As a means to record building performance and lower operating costs, all energy related metrics will have post-occupancy data collection through the Building Management System (BMS).