Contact:
Landon Hoyt, Sustainability Office, 778.782.4704, soprojects@sfu.ca
Stephanie Chow, SFU media relations, 778.782.9543, scchow@sfu.ca

Simon Fraser University’s Green Labs program has received an Environmental Star award in the green choices category from the City of Burnaby for demonstrating commitment to reducing impact on the environment.

The award recognizes significant environmental achievements by an individual or group over a number of years. SFU’s Green Labs program has reduced its energy footprint since launching in 2010. 

"We're very proud of the faculty, students, and staff who have made the Green Labs program possible,” says Landon Hoyt, the program’s coordinator. “This award shows that their dedication to sustainability within their lab practices is not going unnoticed."

The program started in SFU’s South Sciences Building in 2010, followed by the Shrum Chemistry Centre after its newly completed LEED Gold certified renovations.

Multiple pot lights in the South Sciences Building were taken down and competitions between the two buildings have taken place to encourage lab occupants to reduce energy and water use, as well as waste.

Organized by SFU Facilities Services, SFU Sustainability Office, and occupants of the South Sciences Building, the program saved the Burnaby campus almost $22,800 in direct energy costs and decreased natural gas consumption by more than four per cent.

Simon Fraser University is Canada's top-ranked comprehensive university and one of the top 50 universities in the world under 50 years old. With campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey, B.C., SFU engages actively with the community in its research and teaching, delivers almost 150 programs to more than 30,000 students, and has more than 120,000 alumni in 130 countries.

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