All Gender Washroom Upgrades

Adding additional all-gender washrooms is a part of our institute commitment to equity and inclusion for all students, staff members, and other campus users. We want to create a campus environment that is modern, welcoming, and where no one feels excluded from essential facilities.

All gender washrooms are rapidly becoming the standard in institutions that have diverse communities like BCIT.

The introduction of all-gender washrooms improve access to essential facilities for all campus users as there are floors in some buildings that currently do not have washrooms for both binary genders, or the only available option is restricted to staff.

An all-gender washroom is washroom that is available to anyone no matter their gender.  These types of washrooms are either single-occupancy or multi-stall.

Campus Planning and Facilities and the Respect Diversity and Inclusion Office have consulted extensively with campus stakeholders and independent consultants to develop a plan for the Institute. A full report Inclusive Washroom Guidelines for BCIT was prepared by TransFocus Consulting.

The updates to single use facilities will be beginning shortly. We will provide a schedule as soon as that is available. We will also provide information for users about any impacts that are scheduled for an individual building.

Any larger projects will be communicated separately.

Yes. we recognise that there will still be a need to retain washrooms for both binary genders in some locations. We will continue to consult with our campus communities to make sure individual upgrades are appropriate and cause minimum disruption while work occurs.

There are maps of existing all-gender locations on campus and all locations proposed for upgrades.

Map of current locations

Map of current and proposed locations

Larger renovations will aim to improve the accessible facilities as well as making them all-gender. In the smaller single use washroom update projects, the focus is on improving distributed access to all gendered facilities not upgrading the washroom fittings.