Third Quadrant Design UBC

Third Quadrant Design is UBC's newest Engineering Design Team, focusing on the design and construction of high-performance buildings. This year, TQD is participating in the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon design challenge. The Solar Decathlon, formerly ‘race to zero’ is a competition that welcomes entries from universities all over the world to design and build highly efficient, healthy, affordable, and renewably powered buildings. Third-Quadrant Design was named after the negative area of a coordinate plane, symbolizing our goal of net-negative carbon design, or regenerative design. In this capacity, we hope to bring together passionate students from various disciplines to learn about and act on our current climate crisis, while building hireable, real-world knowledge, and hands-on skills.