Complete UW Environment 3 | 16 m | 4 fl | LEED Platinum

[UrbanWaterloo]

EV3's interior looked a lot nicer than Math 3...

July 5, 2011







Much better atrium.










Lecture Hall




Williams Fresh Cafe










Visible angled support beams for character.




Large patio space.














Liked this space.




There's even green floors.

[DKsan]

The room with the drop down power plugs is the new planning studio. It's so bright and airy and large. Can't wait to use it.

[Newgrad]

Re: the very last photo

Nice to see they have taken the Accessibility for Ontarians Disability Act to heart. That's how you build an accessible front desk.

[The_Architect]

Though I don't think they picked the best design submission, it is one of the more interesting buildings on campus.
I also can't wait for the interior to be finished, does anybody have an estimated completion date? I remember we were told last year that it would be done for Orientation Week this year.

[DKsan]

It's supposed to be open for Fall classes. It's says so if you look at the schedule of classes for UW.

The official grand opening of ENV3, according to the person on the uwaterloo Twitter account is November 23rd, but it's open for use obviously way before then.

[UWaterloo]

Great photos of the buildings progress. I feel like going back for grad studies. After 3 years I almost miss it. LOL

[M____J1]

From about a week ago...

[UWaterloo]

UW opens latest new building, Environment 3

Environment 3_2. The $22.3-million Environment 3 building, which opened Friday at the University of Waterloo, features a greenroof balcony, a two-storey bio wall and four floors of windows. Mathew McCarthy/Record staff Source: Record staff

By Jeff Hicks, Record staff
November 18, 2011


WATERLOO — Another Friday, another mega-million-dollar building opens at the University of Waterloo.
This time, it’s Environment 3.
Another 57,000 square feet, built for $22.3-million.
We’re talking a solar power system, four floors of windows and a two-story bio wall. Bamboo railings running up the stair wells for more than a thousand students to hang onto every day as they study in Waterloo’s School of Planning and nationally-lauded School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.
“Buildings usually don’t do it for me,” said Andre Roy, the dean of Waterloo’s faculty of the environment. “This building is spectacular.”
So goes this fall of ribbon-cuttings at the University of Waterloo, where three of the last five Fridays have seen official openings for three sparkling new houses of learning.
Total construction price tag for Engineering 6, Mathematics 3 and Environment 3 is $88.3-million. Total new space for academics is about 288,000 square feet.
And the 30,000-student, 4,000-faculty university is just getting started.
“We will have to build new buildings,” university president Feridun Hamdullahpur said. “Some of our buildings are aging and will have to be replaced.”
New buildings will be sought for science, arts and health sciences.
“The growth is unbelievable in those faculties,” Hamdullahpur said. “We have serious plans to hire more faculty.”
Federal and provincial governments were put on notice by Hamdullahpur on Friday. Thanks for the combined $50-million to get these latest three openings a reality, he said. But be prepared for more requests.
“We will be knocking on your door very soon,” Hamdullahpur said. “We have tremendous plans for the future that we will be bursting out of our seams and that we will need new buildings.”
Growth is the key word at Waterloo.
The university, which got a million-dollar donation from The Minto Group for Environment 3, doesn’t want to hold undergraduate growth back to two per cent again. Hamdullahpur said undergrad growth could easily have hit 20 per cent if Waterloo had the space and faculty to handle it without diluting the educational product.
But growth costs money and Ontario’s recently re-elected McGuinty government is talking about belt-tightening.
“I would be remiss if I did not point out we’re in real financial difficulties — every government is,” Kitchener MPP John Milloy, who is House Leader in the Liberal minority government.
“People have to be realistic. But there are plans to continue to build up infrastructure in our universities.”
A year from now, the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre is expected to open as the $160-million home to Waterloo’s undergrad program in nanotechnology engineering, as well as institutes of quantum computing and nanotechnology.
“We’ve got to build on excellence,” Milloy said, pointing at the three recent building openings at Waterloo. “Engineering, math, environmental studies — these are places where U of W is a world leader. So let’s continue to enhance that.”


http://www.therecord.com/news/local/...-environment-3

[The_Architect]

New building and still no cell reception anywhere! Even sitting near the windows in the planning studio is a battle for a signal, don't even try in the lecture hall.

[mikeyp]

New building and still no cell reception anywhere! Even sitting near the windows in the planning studio is a battle for a signal, don't even try in the lecture hall.

Maybe you should be concentrating on the lecture instead of texting your boyfriend. Snip snap!

[The_Architect]

Maybe you should be concentrating on the lecture instead of texting your boyfriend. Snip snap!

Haha well 1. Fine I'll give you that but everyone does it and 2. I'm a straight guy so if anything it'd be my girlfriend!