"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3983096"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2020-05-05"@en . "1925-09"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/upubmisc/items/1.0115169/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " U. E. C. No. 3\nBuildings and Equipment\nof The University of\nBritish Columbia\nPrepared by\nThe University Extension Committee\nThe University of British Columbia\nVancouver, September, 1925\n Alil'HM\n Buildings and Equipment\nOF\nThe University of British Columbia\nTHE University of British Columbia begins the work of the Session 1925-26 in its new\nand permanent home at Point Grey. The site, about six miles from the centre of Vancouver, is of ample size, and of rare beauty. The Campus, Farm and Forest lands, an\narea of more than 500 acres, occupy the western part of the peninsula of Point Grey, which\nthrusts itself out into the Gulf of Georgia between English Bay and the Fraser River. Thus\non three sides the site is surrounded by the sea; and with an uninterrupted view of the Islands\nof the Gulf and the Olympic Range on the south, the heights of Vancouver Island on the\nView of Howe Sound prom the Campus\nwest, and the nearer and more imposing peaks of the Coast Range flanking the fiord of Howe\nSound, the location commands a prospect of unrivalled marine and mountain beauty.\nThe situation of the University has many practical advantages. Surroundings which\ninclude mountain and sea, river and forest, furnish exceptional facilities for field work in both\nthe pure and applied sciences. Within a few hours' journey from the University are smelters,\ncoal mines, logging camps, saw mills, pulp and paper mills, hydro-electric installations, grain\nelevators and numerous manufacturing establishments, besides some of the largest metal mines\nand one of the largest ore-reducing plants in the British Empire. Furthermore, the close proximity of Vancouver is a great asset for technical and industrial study. Vancouver is the commercial centre of the Province, the terminus of several transcontinental railways, and a rapidly\ngrowing World port, and the many industrial plants which ?are thus within easy reach, are\ngenerously opened to students of engineering for study and demonstration. In addition,\nstudents of Economics and Sociology have at their disposal not only the materials for study\nthat are ordinarily available in a large city, but also those special advantages which attach\nThree\n Clearing the Land\nonly to a Pacific Port,\nwhere the Orient and Occident meet and mingle;\nwhile good hospitals and\nnumerous nursing agencies give excellent opportunity for training to students in Nursing and\nPublic Health. The location is likewise well\nadapted for investigations\nin agriculture, the soil in\nthe immediate vicinity\nbeing typical of heavily\ntimbered upland coast\nsoils, while close at hand\nare the rich alluvial lands\nof the Delta. Students of\nAgriculture enjoy the further advantage of having within easy reach meat packing houses, milk depots and condensers,\nand fruit and vegetable canneries.\nNearly all universities have, like Topsy in \"Uncle Tom's Cabin,\" \"jest growed.\" In the\ncase of nearly all European and most American universities, no one could foresee, at the time\nof their establishment, many of the conditions that are essential and governing factors of a\n20th century institution of higher learning. The amazing developments in the physical\nsciences, and the provision of laboratories necessary for their study were things quite beyond\nthe horizon of their vision. So, too, was the consideration which all modern universities must\nface, that facilities for higher education must be provided, not alone for the sons and daughters of the wealthy, but for every class of the community. Instead of considering the needs\nof a few hundred students, the modern university must answer the demands of thousands.\nCollege curricula include\nnot alone divinity, law and\n\"the humanities,\" but have\nin view the most practical\nactivities of every-day life,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094-in fact, the scope of a\nuniversity today is as\nbroad as life itself. All\nthe older institutions labor\nunder disabilities owing to\nthe unexpected and unexampled developments in\nuniversity work. Buildings\nwere erected as growth\ndemanded and funds permitted, but few were so\ndesigned as to leave room\nThe First Building on the Campus\n for expansion because\nnone was expected. Expansion, when it came, presented well-nigh insuperable difficulties to university authorities, because\nsubstantial buildings were\nin many cases crowded into\nso small an area that their\nenlargement was impossible. No problems of this\nparticular type will present themselves, not at\nleast for many generations, to those responsible for the welfare of\nThe University of British\nColumbia. It was, from\nthe beginning, planned\nand designed for future requirements, as well as present needs. Not only has ample provision been made for the development of the courses now offered, but space has been assigned\non the campus for many branches of study that in all probability will not for some years be\nundertaken. A comprehensive plan (Page 6), selected by competent judges from many submitted, ensures a proportional and harmonious scheme of development. Of this plan, which\nwill be adhered to, and carried out by successive stages in future years, the permanent buildings on the campus are but the nucleus.\nThe Second Building on the Campus\nFive\n u\nmm\n/\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00A3C[ ' Oli J ft' ^-^/T^^t\"*9 *^ Wr \"\"^-\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB m^^h\n.,::-,\n/>*?,\u00C2\u00BBr-f*\n Congregation at Faihview\nOld Site at Faihview\nThe Cairn\nFaculty and Students at the Faihview Site, 1922\nEight\nNine\n The Permanent Buildings\nLIBRARY\nTHE Library stands at the head of the Arts Quadrangle, east of the main axis. It is\na massive structure of two stories and a basement built of British Columbian granite.\nThe style is late Tudor, modernized. The entrance floor is devoted to offices, and to\nthe Burnett collection which represents the arts, handicraft and weapons of Polynesia. The\nLibrary Reading Room\nfloors of the Main Entrance Hall, of the staircases and of the Concourse are finished with\nlarge marbled rubber tiles which harmonize with the general colour scheme, and ensure quietness in the principal parts of the building. The Concourse has a floor space of 100 feet by\n50 feet and is 60 feet in height. Finely designed exposed trusses support the roof. The\nEleven\n interior walls are finished in Caen Stone. The woodwork throughout is of plain oak. Ample\nlight is provided through large, pale, amber-coloured Gothic windows. In these are inserted\nthe Coats of Arms of Canadian and British Universities, which supply a touch of colour\nneeded to relieve the dignified austerity of the interior stone. Two smaller reading rooms,\neach 60 feet by 30 feet, open off the main reading room. The Concourse provides accommodation for 250 students. The stack room, which occupies the entire rear of the building,\ncontains seven tiers, four of which are fully equipped with steel stacks of the latest design.\nHere fifty-two semi-private study \"carrels\" facilitate research by advanced students. The\nUniversity Library contains 53,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets classified throughout on\nthe Congressional system. It also receives regularly 450 magazines and periodical publications devoted to literature, history, the sciences and the transactions of learned societies.\nWhile the Library is primarily for the use of the staff and students of the University, its\nresources are available to the general public on personal application to the Librarian.\nPOWER HOUSE\nTHE Power House, placed in the centre of the space which will ultimately be the\nEngineering Quadrangle, will eventually be masked by the permanent Engineering\nbuildings extending eastward towards the Mall. The present boiler installation consists of three units each of 250 horse power normal rating. Each unit, so equipped as to\nPower House\noperate independently of the others, may act as a service as well as an experimental station.\nInstruments are provided to record every operation so that close checking and comparisons\nof the performance of the three different types of boilers may be made.\n The Babcock and Wilcox unit is equipped with their Natural Draft Stoker, and the\nSterling Boiler with forced draft Coxe Travelling Grate. The Kidwell, with forced draft\nCoxe Travelling Grate, is also equipped with air pre-heater, by-passed, so that tests may be\nconducted with or without\npre-heated air. Induced\ndraft is used with individual\nforced draft fans; separate\nboiler feed lines and pump\nwith Linchart Scale provide\nboiler feed for tests. A\ntravelling weigh scale records the amount of coal\nused, while a steam jet ash\nconveyer elevates the ashes\nto an overhead bunker.\nThe efficiency and flexibility of the plant lends itself to economical operation, while the knowledge\ngained in the use of different appliances will be of\ngreat interest and value to\npower plant users.\nAerial Tramway\nSCIENCE BUILDING\nTHE Science Building forms one side of the Science Quadrangle. Its exterior is designed\nin the Tudor Style, a phase of English Gothic capable of adaptation for modern collegiate\nrequirements. It is constructed throughout of British Columbian granite with interior\nfinishings of oak. Wherever possible, plain wall surfaces, consisting of the split faces of the\ngranite arranged in random sizes with white joints, have been used. The general grey tone is\nrelieved by the use of a small quantity of field stone of darker shades. The windows are of\nleaded glass in steel sashes. The interior of the building is finished in brick and tile in pleasing\ntones of brown which harmonize with the oak-panelled doors.\nThis building, which was designed for the sole use of Chemistry ultimately, now accommodates the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Bacteriology, and Nursing and Health. The\nlecture rooms and laboratories are well lighted. Special attention has been paid to the ventilating system, the air being renewed every seven minutes by motor driven fan blowers. Distilled water, gas, steam, compressed air and electrical supply circuits have been provided\nwherever required. These services are carried in trenches in the floor, an arrangement which\nfacilitates any necessary repairs.\nThirteen\n Chemistry-\u00E2\u0080\u0094In this Department there are ten offices and private laboratories fully\nequipped with special facilities for research, ten general laboratories, two lecture rooms, four\nbalance rooms, several supply and store rooms, a constant temperature room, a liquid air\nroom, a departmental\nlibrary and a reading\nroom, a photographic dark\nroom and a well equipped\nmachine shop.\nA large steam-operated\nstill is located in a room\non the roof, from which\ndistilled water is distributed through block-tin\npipes to various sections of\nthe building. The laboratories and research rooms\nare well supplied with\nfume cupboards. Great\ncare has been given to the\nchoice and selection of all\nstructural materials used\nthroughout the building\nand to all materials used\nfor special experimental\nequipment. All structural\niron work is heavily\npainted with special acid-\nproof paint.\nThe laboratories include\none for elementary chem-\nA Corridor in the Science Building\nLaying the Corner-stone or the Science Building\nistry, two for elementary\nqualitative and quantitative analysis, an advanced quantitative, an\nelementary organic, an\nadvanced organic, an agricultural, a physical, an\nindustrial and an organic\ncombustion room.\nPhysics \u00E2\u0080\u0094 On the first\nfloor of the Science Building there are two large\nlecture rooms; three large\nlaboratories for Elementary Physics, Mechanics\nand Heat, and Electricity;\na reading room for ad-\nFifteen\n Panoramic View ok Campus, Mat, 1(124\nPanoramic View ot Campus, May, 1025\nSixteen\nSeventeen\n vanced students ; a number of offices and small laboratories in which special work may be undertaken by members of the staff; and two rooms adjoining the larger lecture room, one serving\nas a repository for the apparatus and the other as a convenient place in which to prepare\nexperiments for lecture demonstration.\nIn the basement there are a dark room and small laboratories designed for light and\nX-ray experiments; a large research laboratory provided with four large piers which are not\nin contact with the building, thus affording facilities for the use of sensitive apparatus; a\nbattery room containing two sets of storage cells supplying 110 volts each, from which current may be obtained in any of the laboratories by means of a switch-board in the distributing\nroom adjoining; a constant temperature room; and a mechanic's shop equipped with tools for\nrepairing and making apparatus.\nBacteriology\u00E2\u0080\u0094This Department has four laboratories, two for general Student work,\none for serological work and one for advanced research. In addition a lecture room, offices, a\npreparation room and a sterilization room have been provided.\nNursing and Health\u00E2\u0080\u0094The three rooms assigned to this Department constitute a teaching\nunit such as is provided in modern training schools for the instruction of nurses. All the\nequipment necessary for the demonstration of elementary nursing procedure is available.\nThe Fiest Assembly in the New Auditorium\nEighteen\n Semi-Permanent Bui lei\niings\nADMINISTRATION BUILDING\nOn the ground floor of this building are situated the offices of the President, the Dean\nof the Faculty of Arts and Science, the Registrar, and the Bursar. On the second floor are\ntwo large rooms, one for the meetings of the Board of Governors and the Senate, and the\nother for meetings of Faculties and Committees.\nAdministration Building\nAUDITORIUM BUILDING\nThe Auditorium Building is designed in a pleasing treatment of Renaissance architecture\nand is furnished with the most modern equipment. It has a seating capacity of 1140, a large\nstage admirably equipped for dramatic presentations, an orchestra pit and adequate off-stage\nAuditorium Building\nNineteen\n dressing rooms. Provision has been made for the operation of moving pictures, and the stage\nis equipped with a cyclorama and all necessary electrical illumination devices.\nIn addition to the Auditorium proper, this building houses various other important\nfeatures. In the basement are situated the lunch room, designed to accommodate 400 students\nat a time, a small dining room for the Faculty, and a kitchen furnished with the latest cooking\nand baking equipment. The bookstore, post office, medical offices, women's rest room, students'\ncouncil offices and numerous committee rooms for subsidiary organizations are also located in\nthe Auditorium Building.\nARTS BUILDING\nIn the Arts Building, which forms the centre of the semi-permanent group, are located\nthe lecture rooms and offices for the following Departments in the Faculty of Arts and\nScience; Classics, Economics, Sociology and Political Science, English, History, Mathematics,\nModern Languages and Philosophy. The lecture rooms, 16 in number, the largest of which\naccommodates 250 students, the others ranging in seating capacity from 32 to 65 each, are\nwell designed and exceptionally well lighted. The remaining rooms are the office of the Dean\nof Women, and four common rooms for the use of the undergraduates in Arts and Science.\nArts Building\nTwenty\n AGRICULTURE BUILDING\nThis building accommodates\nthe Departments of Agronomy,\nAnimal Husbandry, Dairying,\nHorticulture and Poultry Husbandry. It also contains the\noffice and record rooms for the\nFarm Survey studies and four\nlecture rooms, the largest of\nwhich has a seating capacity of\nPerennial Border\nAgbicultuhe Buildino\n112, the others accommodating\nfrom 36 to 54 students. The remaining space is occupied by the\nnecessary offices, preparation\nrooms, storage rooms, a photographic dark room, a herd book\nroom, and a students' common\nroom.\nThe Nursery\nTwenty-one\n HORTICULTURE\nThe Department of Horticulture maintains field plantings covering at present some twelve\nacres. These plantings comprise\nthe more important kinds and\nvarieties of tree fruits, small\nfruits, vegetables and ornamental\ntrees, shrubs and flowers, as well\nas some of the newer and rarer\nkinds which are being tested with\nHorticultural Buildin\na view to improving upon the\nvarieties in common use. This extensive material not only affords\nopportunity for giving the students practical experience on the\npropagation, planting, pruning,\nand general care of the various\nhorticultural crops, but also\nmakes possible for both undergraduate and graduate students\nvaluable comparative studies in\nIn the Orchard\nconnection with various experiments conducted with these crops.\nSupplementing the outside field\nplantings, a glass propagating\nhouse provides accommodation for\na modest collection of some of the\nmore tender plants besides supplying the students with some practical training in greenhouse management.\nStrawberry Plots\nTwentv-twa\n F ;: 1\" i\ni J\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0PP*^\nAgronomy Building\nAGRONOMY\nThis Department is provided\nwith a combined laboratory and\nlecture room which is equipped\nwith water, gas and electricity.\nWhile this room will be used for\nstudies in crop production, in the\njudging of specimens of plants\nand in the determination of soil\nsamples, the main emphasis will be\nlaid on the work conducted in the\nDepartment's outdoor laboratory\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Agronomy fields.\nThroughout the nine years,\nduring which Agronomy work has\nbeen undertaken at the Point Grey\nSite, an endeavour has been made\nto collect plants from all over the\nworld which might be considered\nsuitable for conditions prevailing\nin this Province. Considerable\ntesting and breeding work has\nbeen done with this material, and\na number of crosses were made in\n1917 and later which, together\nAgronomy Plots\nA Clover Plot\nwith their progeny, will give the\nstudents abundant material for\nstudies in heredity. Several outstanding varieties and strains have\nbeen produced within all lines of\nfield crops and these will serve as\na basis for demonstration, multiplication and ultimately for dissemination among the farmers of\nthe Province.\nWork on soils and soil fertility\nis a specialized branch of this\ndepartment.\nTwenty-three\n ANIMAL HUSBANDRY\nThe Department of Animal\nHusbandry possesses outstanding\nherds and flocks of the different\ntypes of live stock\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ayrshires and\nJerseys. representing the dairy\ntypes, Shorthorns and Herefords\nthe beef types, Clydesdales the\nClydesdale Mares\ndraft horse, Berkshires, Yorkshires and Duroc Jerseys the\nvarious types of swine, and Oxfords, Shropshires and South-\ndowns representing the middle\nwool types of sheep. In this material and in the farm survey rec-\nInjUK Maii.v\nords, the Department possesses a\nwealth of data for teaching and\nillustrating matters connected\nwith farm management, live-stock\nmanagement, feed and nutrition,\npedigree and breeding.\nJersey Cows\nTwenty-four\n Beef Barn\n(tut IUikt n.\r^. I'l, ii\nNlW |l.tl\u00C2\u00ABT KM*\nI \u00C2\u00AB\\nBdJLijJ\n,..:,.. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nnr ['niiirnr\nFarm Cottages\nTwenty-five\n DAIRYING\nThe new laboratories of the Department of Dairying consist of a number of rooms on the\nground floor of the Agriculture Building. Facilities are provided for conducting researches\non the bacterial flora of milk, butter and cheese, and the relation of the flora to the production\nand sale of high quality products. Moreover these laboratories have made it possible for work\nto be done on the mycology of certain varieties of cheese. Excellent\nfacilities have been provided for\nthe instruction of students in the\nwork indicated. Though cheese-\nmaking and butter-making will be\nconducted in the temporary dairy\nbuilding, the new laboratories permit, to a marked degree, of closer\ncontact in the various activities of\nthe Department.\nDairy Building\nPOULTRY HUSBANDRY\nIn the poultry laboratory in the Agriculture Building, facilities and equipment are provided to assist in the study of poultry nutrition, diseases, and other problems related to the\nindustry.\nOn the poultry plant, which\nis the main laboratory of the\nPoultry Department, ten pure\nbreeds of commercial importance\nare being tested for egg and meat\nproduction. Experiments in management and marketing are conducted with these birds and their\nproducts. An economic study of\nthe business and management of\n100 poultry farms in the province\nsupplements the work conducted\nat the University.\nWyandotte Pullets\nSoldiers' Re-establishment Building\nTwenty-six\n APPLIED SCIENCE BUILDING\nThis building houses the Departments of Geology, Civil Engineering, Zoology, Forestry,\nBotany, the Applied Science lecture rooms and a students' common room. All the\nlaboratories have been equipped with the essential services. One large lecture room, providing accommodation for 250 students, and 11 smaller lecture rooms with a seating capacity\nranging from 25 to 112 are located in this building. Extensive provision has been made\nfor draughting rooms and for the necessary offices, preparation rooms, storage rooms, and\nphotographic rooms. A geological museum and a reading room have also been provided.\niffi\nill\nliiiif. V.. jjll ii IRISH\nApplied Science Building\nGeology\u00E2\u0080\u0094In addition to the necessary lecture rooms, the Department of Geology has\nthree large and well equipped laboratories, the Mineralogical, the Petrological and the\nGeological. A workroom is equipped for cutting and grinding specimens for microscopic\nexamination, and for geological experiments. It also contains a photographic dark room.\nThe museum contains valuable collections of illustrative material which supplement the extensive working collections in the laboratories. The departmental library contains books, maps,\nphotographs and slides for reference.\nCivil Engineering\u00E2\u0080\u0094Well equipped and well lighted draughting and designing rooms are\nprovided for all classes in drawing, mapping, machine design, and computation work. Surveying equipment for all types of work, including land, railway, hydrographic, topographic,\nastronomical and precise surveys is available for undergraduate classes.\nThe Hydraulic Laboratory is situated in the Mining, Metallurgy and Hydraulic Building, while opportunity for making extensive tests of timber and steel is provided for\nstudents in Civil Engineering through an arrangement with the Dominion Forest Products\nLaboratories.\nZoology\u00E2\u0080\u0094This Department, which includes in its syllabus courses in Entomology, has\ntwo large laboratories, a small research laboratory and two private laboratories, all well\nequipped. A room used for class material also serves as a repository for a museum collection.\nForestry\u00E2\u0080\u0094While the Department of Forestry has its own laboratory for work in wood\ntechnology, its own class rooms and offices, it uses the laboratories of other Departments\nquite extensively, notably those in Biology, Civil Engineering and Forest Products.\nTwentv-ieven\n The Department possesses in the forest belt, which has been preserved on the campus as\na natural park, a very valuable outdoor laboratory for forestry students. The forest, containing about 100 acres, is typical of the stands found on the western coast, and all the principal species of trees and shrubs of the region are represented, including Douglas fir, western\nred cedar, western hemlock, Sitka spruce, grand fir, broad-leaf maple, alder and many others.\nBotany\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Botanical\nlaboratories include a\nlarge junior laboratory, a\nsenior laboratory, two student research laboratories,\nthree private research\nrooms, and a Herbarium\nof over 15,000 sheets provided with fireproof accommodation.\nThe Botanical Gardens\noccupy five acres on the\nwest side of the University\ncampus. Here may be\nseen over 1000 different\nspecies of native plants\ncollected from all parts of\nBritish Columbia, including dry-belt, alpine and\ncoast species. One part of the gardens is devoted to the herbaceous collection, and here plants\nare systematically arranged according to their families; another part is reserved for a native\narboretum to illustrate the British Columbian species of trees and shrubs; still another constitutes the nursery, where duplicates and plants for research are raised. The economic flora\nis represented by several beds of medicinal plants.\nBotanical Gardens\nThe University, through\nthis Department, offers\nassistance in the identification of native species\nand desires to secure the\nco-operation of all interested in the flora of British\nColumbia, in order to fill\nexisting gaps in the collections of the Herbarium\nand Botanical Gardens.\nAnother View of Botanical Gardens\nTwentv-eiahl\n MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL LABORATORIES\nThe Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering is housed in two buildings,\nthe larger one for Mechanical Engineering, the smaller for Electrical Engineering.\nThe Mechanical Building comprises a large laboratory, three lecture rooms, a draughting room, a calorimetry room, a storage room and a machine shop. In the Mechanical\nlaboratory there are a Corliss engine, a two-stage air-compressor, and a new National gas\nengine, which will be equipped with the necessary apparatus for carrying out complete tests.\nIn addition, two oil engines are available for testing purposes, also a 50 h.p. Diesel Engine\nand Fronde Brake, a De Laval steam Turbine with condenser, a triple expansion marine engine,\na carbon dioxide refrigerating machine, several oil engines, and a gas engine. The power\nhouse with its different types of boilers will be available for carrying out complete boiler tests.\nA 250 K. W.-A. C. generator driven by a compound engine of the high speed type, and also\nthe steam pumps of various kinds in the power house will be available for testing purposes.\nEngineering Laboratories\nThe calorimetry room is fitted with a Junker's gas calorimeter for the complete analysis of\nfuels and gas. In addition a large amount of equipment for experimental work in the\nmechanics of machines is provided. There is also an excellent machine shop equipped with\nlathes and other modern machine tools.\nIn the smaller of the two buildings junior and senior laboratories are provided for Electrical Engineering as well as rooms for research, photometry, meter-standardizing, and a\nhigh tension testing laboratory. The senior laboratory contains modern equipment, including three phase series and shunt commutator motors, a repulsion motor of the Deri brush\nshifting type, rotary converters, synchronous motors and direct current machines of the series,\nshunt, and compound types. There is also a Hunt Cascade Induction motor, an alternator\nand a Kapp Vibrator. An oscillograph of the Duddell type, and an alternating current\npotentiometer of the Gall type has also been installed. The junior laboratory is furnished\nwith all the equipment necessary in preparing for the senior course.\nTwenty-nine\n MINING, METALLURGY AND HYDRAULIC BUILDING\nThe Mining and Metallurgical laboratories cover a total area of 5000 square feet. The\nOre Dressing laboratory, which includes a workshop, storage room and flotation room, is\nwell equipped with a variety of small scale machines, including crusher, rolls, screens, jigs,\nball mills, and tables. A two-ton travelling crane covers the whole laboratory. The laboratory is fully wired for power and light and has large water mains and drains. The Metallurgical laboratory includes a fire assay room, with oil, gasoline and gas furnaces; a wet assay\nroom, with large fan draught fume closet and work benches wired for electric and gas heating ; a fine balance room; a photographic dark room, and ample storage room.\nThe Hydraulic laboratory is well equipped for tests and demonstrations of high and low\npressure hydraulic machines and pumps. A 60-horse-power D. C. motor is utilized to drive\neither a 10-inch single stage centrifugal pump having a capacity of 2400 gallons per minute\nagainst a 70-ft. head, or to drive a 4-inch two-stage pump having a capacity of 525 gallons\nper minute against a 325-foot head. The water from the large pump can be used to drive a\n10-inch vertical reaction turbine, while the flow from the high pressure pump can be used to\ndrive an 18-inch Pelton Wheel, thus providing students with actual working demonstrations\nof all the ordinary types of machines. Installations include apparatus for weir, nozzle, and\norifice measurements, flow in pipes, tests and demonstrations of Venturi, current and service\nmeters. One section of the laboratory is set apart for making the standard tests of cement\nand sand.\nFOREST PRODUCTS BUILDING\nThis building was erected by the University, but the task of providing the personnel\nand furnshing the equipment has been undertaken by the Department of the Interior. By\nfurther arrangement between this Department and the University the laboratories are available for the use of classes engaged in testing materials.\nIn this building there are a large timber testing laboratory, an experimental kiln-drying\nlaboratory, a pathological laboratory, an exhibit room, a carpenter shop and a special build-\nForest Products Building\nThirty\n A View of Marine Drive from\nUniversity Grounds\nThe buildings and equipment\ndescribed above were planned to\naccommodate fifteen hundred\nstudents. Last year the registration, exclusive of Summer\nSession and Short Course Students, was 1451. Now, for the\nfirst time in the institution's history it has class room, laboratory and office accommodation\nadequate for present requirements.\ning for air seasoning studies of\nlumber. Provision has also been\nmade for the necessary offices\nand for a reference library.\nAll the laboratories are well\nequipped. Testing machines\nrange from a 200,000-pound\nOlsen Universal compression\nand tension machine to the most\ndelicate balances.\nOverlooking a Bathing Beach from\nUniversity Grounds\nThirty-one\n Buiidm&sandGrounds of\nThei/nimsityoffiritish Columbia,\nVancouver, 3.C.\nFarm Lands\n1 Library\n2 c/cr'e#ce\n3 Jfc/ministntior?\n4-Auditorium\nSJlrts\n6 JippfiedScience\n7^ncu/ture\nZ Rawer/base\n10 Electrical Laboratories\nllmSnirft/toMhrfflerffyehoylios\nt2 tvrest floducls Laboratory\n/JHorticultural. Barn\nW Agronomy Barn\nIS Horse 6ar\u00C2\u00BB\n16S.C.# Ouildinfr\n17 Dairy fiarr?\nt9/ieer^arj7\n2Q Sheep Gam\n \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E 21 Farm Cottars\n9 fftechanieol Laboratories 22\SC/?.1/Scational\nFarm Land?\n25) em/dings\n2f farm Oatru\n25/buferyftdnt\nPermanent fie//,\n^ Jem/flermar&rt \u00C2\u00A3ui/d/hps\nJfforonomy\nmdim\n"@en . "Periodicals"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LE3.B83 U552 1925"@en . "UBC Archives, Library fonds, Box 20-file 11"@en . "UBCMiscDocs_1925_09_30_Buildings_and_equipment"@en . "10.14288/1.0115169"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the University of British Columbia."@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Archives"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . 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