• Building as a Living Lab: Mass Timber and Wellness in BCIT’s Campus Services Centre

    Living Labs
    Building NW04, Room 1072 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC, BC

    The Campus Services Centre is one of the key components of the Trades and Technology Complex, currently under construction at the Burnaby Campus. The finished building will incorporate offices, trades shops and a logistics warehouse, but the design will be a showcase for mass timber construction and how this can contribute to wellness for the […]

  • Overcoming geotechnical and structural design challenges for the Concert Properties Centre for Trades and Technology

    Living Labs
    Building SE02, TownSquare A 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    BCIT’s new Concert Properties Centre for Trades and Technology will be a state-of-the-art new home for Trades education, engineering, research and industry collaboration. As well as the building, the project also includes daylighting a section of Guichon Creek that currently runs underneath the campus in a culvert. These unique site conditions mean that geotechnical and […]

  • Celebrate World Bee Day with BCIT

    Living Labs
    Building SE02, TownSquare D 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Did you know that the Burnaby BCIT Campus is home to 27,000 bees? Our campus beehives, along with pollinator-friendly trees, shrubs, perennials, and ground covers are one way that BCIT supports sustainability and enhances natural spaces on campus. On World Bee Day we’re celebrating these powerful pollinators with a special event.   12:30 – 1:30 pm: […]