The City of Vancouver has signed up suppliers to expand its False Creek Neighbourhood Utility that provides heat and hot water around the Olympic Village, which will triple its existing footprint. The $100 million project will see Vancouver expand the system, which harvests waste heat from hot water running through sewage pipes as a key emissions-reduction measure, from 3.2 megawatts to 9.8 megawatts. And its capacity will be increased from servicing 600,000 square metres of building space, including Science World and Emily Carr University of Art and Design, to an additional 1.9 million square metres of new development in the Southeast False Creek, False Creek Flats, Northeast False Creek and Mount Pleasant.