Founded in 2019, Third Quadrant Design (TQD) is a student-run interdisciplinary design team that is working towards expanding green building education at UBC. TQD will represent UBC at the 2023 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge. Over the span of two years, TQD will design and build a net-zero energy, net-zero carbon, live-work single-family home — Third Space, located at UBC’s Vancouver Campus.
The Third Space project has three lives:
1. The existing building will provide the necessary materials and systems to build Third House, showing the feasibility for reuse in today’s building market.
2. In its second life, Third Space will serve as a single-family home for the Solar Decathlon competition.
3. Following completion, the building will serve as a living lab and student collaboration space for UBC students.
Our Contributions
As a build-partner, we are supplying field labour, materials, and project management time to help expedite project completion for early 2023. We will be completing the lighting, lighting control, distribution, fire alarm, and data & security systems for the project. In collaboration with other key stakeholders, our goal is to identify creative solutions to minimize our carbon footprint.