THE TEAM

Built by many hands, across many disciplines.

The Building-Integrated Agriculture Research team brought together designers, engineers, academics, and city partners across three phases of work.

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CONTRIBUTORS

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ORGANIZATIONS

3

PHASES

Acknowledgements

Funding for this project has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Agricultural Clean Technology (ACT) Program.

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Matching funding for this project was provided by Perkins&Will and the BC Centre for Agritech Innovation (BCCAI). 

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The research team would also like to thank the following organizations for their valuable partnership and support. Their contributions were integral to the success of this project.

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Perkins&Will Cross-Phase Direction

Mohamed Imam
Sr. Research Lead, Principal Investigator

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Leigh Christy
Managing Principal

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Yehia Madkour
Director - Middle East

Phase 01 Industry Report

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Cheney Chen
Sr. Research Lead, Perkins&Will

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Amy Brander
Regenerative Design Advisor, Perkins&Will

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Tyrone Marshall
Sr. Research Lead, Perkins&Will

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Juan Rovalo
Director of Ecology, Perkins&Will

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Tatiana Kaida
Designer, Perkins&Will

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Nicole Pfeifer
Sustainable Design Advisor, Perkins&Will

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Sam Ibrahim
Urban Designer, Perkins&Will

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Janna Fahmy
Designer, Perkins&Will

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Brainard Amay
Marketing Coordinator, Perkins&Will

Phase 01 Review

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Kathy Wardle
Regional Director of Regenerative Design, Principal, Perkins&Will

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Kimberly Seigel
Research Manager, Perkins&Will

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Myer Harrell
Senior Regenerative Design Advisor, Perkins&Will

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Jesce Walz
Senior Research Lead, Perkins&Will

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Phaedra Svec
Dir. of Regenerative Design, Perkins&Will

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Enlai Hooi
Head of Innovation, Perkins&Will

External Partners

Charmaine White
Assistant, Food & Agri Institute
UFV

Corey Ellis
Co-Founder & CEO
The Growcer Inc.


Daniel Roehr
Professor and Chair, Landscape Architecture, UBC


David Ceaser
Lead Agronomist
Agritecture


Emily Van Halem
Social Planner
City of Vancouver


Erin Nichols
Senior Project Manager
City of Vancouver

Gwynne Mhuireach
Assistant Professor
UoO


Henry Lau
Social Planner
City of Vancouver


Jason Wegman
Founder
gökotta studio + lab


Kevin Wong
Student Intern
UBC


Kristina Zalite
Landscape Architect
Zale Design


Kyle Born
Co-Founder
Circular Harvest

Laila Benkrima, Ph.D.
Agronomist Consultant
BCCAI


Laura Marie Neubert
Founder
Up Front and Beautiful


Peter Van der Gracht
President
Quanto tech


Robert Ferguson
Student Intern
UBC


Sayon Chandrakanthan
Founder
Advanced Autoponics


Stefania Pizzirani
Associate Director, Food and Agriculture Institute, UFV

Aidan Teppema
Graduate Research Fellow
University of Oregon

Ajwal Dsouza
Ph.D. Candidate, Controlled Environment Systems, UoG

Alesandros Glaros, Vertical
Agriculture Research Lead
UFV

Alycia Van der Gracht
Founder
Quanto tech

Bridgette Kelly
Student Intern
UBC

Chadd Bauman
Co-Founder
Circular Harvest

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Phase 02 Digital Tool

Halil Erhan
Professor, Dir. of Computational Design Lab

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Alesandros Glaros
Vertical Agriculture Research Lead, UFV

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Zohreh Hassanpour
Product Designer & UX Researcher, SFU

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Esmaeil Mottaghi
Software Developer | Product Designer, SFU

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Mohammadreza Doroodian
Software Engineer, SFU

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Minahil Faisal
Software Engineer | Graduate Researcher

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Laila Benkrima
Agronomist Consultant, Ph.D. BCCAI

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Rahul Singh
Director BC Centre for Agritech Innovation

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Micheal Bolu
Project Manager BCCAI

Phase 03 BIA Pavilion

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Tarek Zeidan
Senior Designer, Perkins&Will

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Abubakr Bajaman
Architect, Perkins&Will

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Jacob Williams
Graphic Designer, Perkins&Will

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Justin Li
Student Intern, UBC

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Alycia Van der Gracht
Founder, Quanto Tech. Ltd

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Alex Feldman
Founding Principal, FORM3

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Ricardo Kuwabara
Industrial Designer, FORM3

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Nicole Parker
Industrial Designer, FORM3

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Robbin Simao
Manager, Research Partnerships