The UBCO Gardening Club has taken nature walks, hosted faculty and community speakers, and helped plant gardens around campus. Now the club is coming out of hibernation for another season.
In order to restore the capacity of UBC Okanagan's artificial retention pond and to extend its operating time, Facilities Management is undertaking an expanded clean-up initiative this summer.
UBC will be conducting their campus-wide semi-annual water main flushing next week, from October 16 to 18. Flushing of water mains normally occurs between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
The UBC Okanagan Gardening Club will be putting local plants under the microscope with a September workshop that will have you looking at the natural world in a whole new way.
The UBC Okanagan Gardening Club will be abuzz with activity this summer, including workshops, guest speakers, planting along the campus nectar trail and the construction of a new on-campus pollinator hotel.
To support campus development and future energy needs, excavation for new water lines is currently taking place on University Way
A variety of services on campus will operate with adjusted hours (and some offices will be closed) during the coming holiday season.
The Glenmore-Ellison Improvement District (GEID) has notified UBC that water main flushing will be underway this week, with the system serving UBC's Okanagan campus being affected on October 19 and 20, this Thursday and Friday.
A new transit exchange is under construction on campus for completion in early September 2017.
The Okanagan Campus Nectar Trail has put down roots and the spring planting season has passed, but the Gardening Club is staying as busy as a bee with two lunch-and-learn workshops coming up this summer.