![(L to R) (front row): Dom Caron, Authentech Homes; Dr. Shahria Alam, UBC School of Engineering, Karin Eger-Blenk, Wilden; Carol Suhan, Fortis BC; Dr. Andrew Hay, Okanagan College; (back row): Okanagan College carpentry students with instructor Tim Dorn (second from right) and Stephen Speers, Dean of Trades and Apprenticeship (right).](https://news.ok.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/wilden-1000.jpg)
UBCO’s Dr. Shahria Alam, front row, second from left, is part of the collaboration between Okanagan College and UBCO for phase 2 of the Wilden Living Lab.
It’s a research partnership that’s about more than bricks and mortar.
Okanagan College and UBC Okanagan — together with Wilden’s Blenk Development Corp., AuthenTech Homes and FortisBC — have broken ground on Phase 2 of the Wilden Living Lab research project.