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The Concert Properties Centre for Trades and Technology: A Journey from Pre-Programing to Design Development

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

Location NW4 (HSC), Room 1072 The Concert Properties Centre for Trades and Technology will be the centrepiece of the upcoming Trades and Technology Complex. However, designing a building which will incorporate technical labs, research labs, classrooms, offices, and a lecture theatre creates a complex web of requirements and objectives. The design team, led by the […]

Event Series Living Labs

The Importance of Stormwater Planning for Major Projects & Campus Operations

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

Location NW4 (HSC), Room 1072 BCIT’s Burnaby Campus is a typical urban environment. Large areas are paved and concreted, but at the heart of the campus is Guichon Creek which is an important waterway and wildlife habitat. This hybrid environment makes it challenging to control and treat rainwater runoff, which is essential to refill groundwater […]

Event Series Living Labs

Implementing Sustainability Management Best Practices in Major Projects

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

Case studies from BCIT Campus Projects Once seen as an optional “value-add” for asset owners, sustainable practices have become a priority and even a requirement for many projects. Whether the objective is to meet funding and/or regulatory requirements, earn a social license to operate, or to align with organizational objectives, sustainability has become a key […]

Event Series Living Labs

Mass Timber Projects from a Fire Engineering Perspective

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

A Living Labs Lecture BCIT’s Tall Timber Student Housing building makes use of innovative mass timber technology. The explosion of interest in mass timber construction has led to a rapid evolution in the Building Code to allow the construction of larger and taller buildings. These changes are underpinned by improved fire engineering knowledge base. In […]

Event Series Living Labs

The Trials & Tribulations of a Quantity Surveyor

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

A Living Labs Lecture Budget control matters in construction, whether your project is a small repair or a new building complex requiring major capital investment. Quantity Surveyors work with both owners and contractors in planning and managing the contractual and financial side of construction. This role helps support projects from initial planning, through design, tendering, […]

Event Series Living Labs

Solar Power and Campus Cogeneration: A Living Labs Lecture

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

In the time since BCIT installed the solar tower at SE01, its first solar power demonstration project in 2003, solar has grown from an unusual, costly electricity source (0.01% of world electricity use) to a leader in power generation growth (6% of world electricity use - enough to power all of Canada, the UK, France, […]

Event Series Living Labs

Construction management of mass timber buildings: A Living Labs Lecture

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

The last few months have been an exciting time for construction on the Tall Timber Student Housing Project. Construction of the structural steel frame has been completed and work to install the mass timber assemblies is well underway. Building with prefabricated mass timber assemblies require careful coordination with subcontractors and consultants to ensure they can […]

Event Series Living Labs

Creating a Prefabricated Modular Envelope & Curtainwall system for BCITs Tall Timber Student Housing Building

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

BCIT’s new student housing building makes use of prefabricated elements to allow for faster and more efficient construction. A key part of this is a specially designed prefabricated Modular Envelope (PME) & Curtainwall system that is installed onto the mass-timber assemblies. The core of this design is a factory-assembled modular exterior wall that will deliver […]

Event Series Living Labs

Designing a mass timber system for BCIT’s Tall Timber Student Housing

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

BCIT’s new Tall Timber Student Housing is one of the largest buildings in the Lower Mainland to make use of mass timber assemblies. The design features a hybrid Cross Laminated Timber point-supported structure, consisting of mass timber (CLT) floors supported on steel HSS columns. Each CLT panel is prefabricated to exact specifications from multiple alternating […]