Sustainability Park

About the McGill Sustainability Park

Learn how our approach to teaching, research and community engagement will help McGill match the pace of a rapidly evolving world.

About the Park

How we’re shaping a greener future

Explore stories of innovation, action, and community impact that are shaping the McGill Sustainability Park into a hub for a greener future.

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Unusual calcite formation discovered at the site of McGill Sustainability Park

A rock featuring a white calcite vein in a rare ‘petal’ formation has been extracted from the construction site of the future McGill Sustainability Park…

3 Aug 2026

Meet the McGill Sustainability Park academic team

Rees Kassen is Academic Director for the McGill Sustainability Park, a Professor of Evolutionary Biology, and Scientific Director of the Coronavirus in the…

14 Apr 2026

Three people wearing McGill construction hats and vests standing in a construction site.

171 geothermal wells among the first construction features going into McGill’s Sustainability Park

On Feb. 13, Canada’s Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Nature toured the site of McGill’s Sustainability Park. Julie Dabrusin (BA ’94) seemed not only…

13 Feb 2026

Rees Kassen, the academic director of the McGill Sustainability Park

Meet the new academic director of the McGill Sustainability Park

Construction is well underway at the original site of the Royal Victoria Hospital, just north of McGill’s main campus, to transform a major portion of that…

3 Feb 2026

ReACT Hubs will drive collaboration at the McGill Sustainability Park

While architects, engineers and construction workers focus on creating the McGill Sustainability Park’s physical spaces, members of an academic community of…

19 Jan 2026

Artist's rendering of the McGill Sustainability Park

The McGill Sustainability Park – Advancing on Multiple Fronts

A major milestone has been reached for the McGill Sustainability Park: excavation and the drilling of geothermal wells of Pavilion N, including civil works, is…

25 Sep 2025

The McGill Sustainability Park is taking shape

A new model for advancing learning and research on sustainability is taking shape: the McGill Sustainability Park. That’s the official name for what had been…

24 Sep 2025

Artist's rendering of the McGill Sustainability Park at night.

Two more design awards for McGill’s New Vic Project

The New Vic Project, designed by Diamond Schmitt/Lemay Michaud Architectes, has won two more architectural awards, this time in the international Grands Prix du…

29 Aug 2024

New Vic Project wins architectural award of excellence 

The architects of McGill University’s New Vic Project have won a Canadian Architectural Award of Excellence for their design. The honour for Diamond Schmitt…

1 Dec 2023

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