SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Every Spring, the School of Construction and the Environment (SOCE) organizes a 2 Day Challenge. This event encourages collaboration between SOCE programs and challenges students in their ability to be creative, innovative, resourceful and efficient in solving a real-world problem.

Read more at SDG 4: Quality Education

The Student Innovation Challenge is an annual contest where students go head-to-head for cash prizes allocated to innovative projects and ideas. Here, students are provided with the opportunity to transform their knowledge into building solutions.

• ARSC 7110 – Heritage Conservation Principles and Practice
• ARSC 8000 – Systems Integration Studio
• ARSC 8280 – Graduating Project – Project Proposal
• ARSC 8350 – Building Science Design Project
• ARSC 8800 – Graduating Project
• AVAO  2255 – Airport Environmental Management Systems
• BLDC 3050 – Building Envelope Performance
• BLDG 1830 – BC Building Code: Part 3 Introduction
• BLDG 2002 – Site-Responsive Planning and Design
• BLDG 2150 – Introduction to Economics for Building
• BLDG 3100 – Building Science 1
• BLDG 4100 – Building Science 2
• BLDT 1061 – Basic Management and Ethics
• BLDT 1081 – Introduction to Green Building Construction Practices
• BLDT 2081 – Environmental Legislation
• BSCI 9100 – Building Science 2
• BSCI 9130 – Building Energy Performance
• BSUS 5130 – Sustainable Business Leadership: Skills and Values 
• BSUS 5140 – Earth Systems and Environmental Policy 
• BUSA 3850 – Management and Industry 
• CIVL 1011 – Introduction to Civil Engineering
• CIVL 3011 – Issues in Engineering
• CIVL 3052  – Municipal Engineering 1
• CIVL 4024 – Land Development Modelling 
• CIVL 4052 – Municipal Engineering 2
• CIVL 7001 – Engineering and Society
• CIVL 7060 – Environmental Engineering
• CIVL 7090 – Capstone Design Project
• CIVL 7091 – Civil Engineering Applied Research Project
• CIVL 7092 – Civil Engineering Design
• CMGT 7640 – Environmental Issues in Construction 1
• CMGT 7650 – Environmental Issues in Construction 2
• EENG 7200 – Principles of Sustainability 
• EENG 7400 – Climate, Energy and the Environment 
• EENG 7425 – Contaminated Site Investigation and Remediation Processes 
• EENG 8430 – Applied Research Methods 
• EENG 8460 – Capstone Project 
• ELEX 8280 – Engineering Law
• ENGR 7480 – Environment, Energy and Engineering
• ENGR 7880 – Engineering Law Ethics and Professionalism
• ENVH 2210 – Sewage Treatment 
• FNAM 4510 – Forest Engineering
• GEOM 5115 – Land Use Planning 
• GROW 1000 – Green Roofs – Details, Installation and Maintenance
• INTD 3100 – Design Theory 2
• INTD 5300 – Degree Studio A: Inclusive Design Environments
• INTD 7500 – Capstone Proposal
• INTD 8500 – Capstone Project
• INTR 3000 – Residential Studio – Bath and Private Spaces
• INTR 4100 – Residential Directed Studies 2
• TOUR 1002 – Marketing for Tourism and Hospitality

CityStudio Vancouver is an innovation hub that brings together city staff, students, faculty and community to co-create experimental projects that make Vancouver more sustainable, liveable, joyful, and inclusive. Created in response to Vancouver’s plan to become the greenest city in the world, CityStudio Vancouver was founded to accelerate sustainability in higher education and provide students with direct opportunities to work in and with the city on urban challenges.

Every year, BCIT collaborates with CityStudio on projects that further Vancouver’s strategic aims. As of fall 2020, 1,197 BCIT students have worked on over 200 projects in collaboration with CityStudio.

Browse the BCIT student projects

Innovating for the future requires a variety of learning tools and techniques. We must create environments that free up the ability to experiment, explore and discover what could become the next big idea.

The largest initiative in our 55-year history, the INSPIRE Campaign is transforming the BCIT campus into a dynamic new learning environment where solutions to our most urgent challenges are born, tested and readied for the world.

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The North Campus Infrastructure Project (NCIP) was an ambitious and forward-thinking initiative that leveraged the opportunity of infrastructure replacement to advance sustainability at BCIT and the surrounding community.

The project upgraded the institution’s infrastructure in a way that made it more resilient, sustainable, increased efficient resource use and incorporated clean and environmentally sound technologies. It was Canada’s first smart power microgrid, fostering innovation in the making.

Read more at SDG 11

Campus Planning aims to create a welcoming, healthy, and safe campus environment for the BCIT community. The division oversees the management of BCIT’s physical assets and natural resources and works collaboratively with the institute’s community to guide the evolution of the physical campus and improve existing facilities. Key responsibilities include long-range land-use planning, capital project planning, developing policies and plans, facility space planning, as well as maintaining facility information including maps and floor plans.

Featured infrastructure projects:

• Health Sciences Centre
• Beedie Plaza
• Tall Timber Student Housing
• Trades & Technology Centre