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Campus Plan

Tall Timber Student Housing

Affordable and diverse living

The BCIT Tall Timber Student Housing was COMPLETED in August 2025 and provides affordable, sustainable housing for 469 BCIT students. The twelve-storey student housing facility features 469 beds in studio and single units, common spaces and support areas, and an outdoor accessible plaza. The use of mass timber construction ensures this is a sustainable building as well as a beautiful centrepiece for the Burnaby campus.

Building Features

469 beds in studio and single units

Associated common areas
Student housing office
Study rooms
Offices and collaboration space

Technology and Sustainability

Example of Mass Timber Construction Building Techniques

The project supports BCIT’s ambitious goals to reduce our institutional carbon footprint and to showcase building techniques like mass timber construction that are innovative and sustainable.

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The completed building showcases the potential of mass timber technology and meets the BC energy Step Code 4.

Tall Timber Student Housing 3D Rendering

Explore the Building's many sustainability features.

What does the project mean for me and the community?

The new Tall Timber Student Housing project goes alongside investment in student facilities like the new student plaza which makes the campus a vibrant and social space for all campus users.

The project & me

Students joining BCIT have access to affordable housing that is situated at the heart of the Burnaby campus. Because our students currently travel to BCIT from across the lower mainland, expanding the availability of affordable housing at the Burnaby campus is a priority of our campus plan. The new student housing project goes alongside investment in student facilities like the new student plaza which make the campus a more vibrant and social space for all campus users.