BCIT Student Housing Receives NCSEA 2024 SEE Award

December 2, 2024

Earlier this fall, BCIT Tall Timber Student Housing was awarded the 2024 SEE Award for Outstanding Structure in the New Buildings: $30 million to $80 Million category at the 2024 NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit in Las Vegas.

Associate, Jamie Pobre Sullivan, attended the NCSEA summit (November 5-8), and presented on this award-winning project in her talk, ‘Next Generation of Tall Timber: a Case Study of Point-Supported CLT Structure at BCIT Student Housing’.

This 12 storey mass timber tower – designed as two perpendicular rectangular wings – delivers a much-needed 464 units of student housing, more than doubling the institute’s current stock.

Aligning with BCIT’s goal to deliver greener student housing, the tower is designed for the highest level of the BC Energy Step Code program. To meet the sustainability and architectural demands of the project, a CLT wide-format Hem-Fir point-supported structure was proposed, consisting of mass timber (CLT) floors supported on steel HSS columns. Prefabrication of the CLT panels meant that the construction schedule was reduced, along with the use of a unitized large-format cladding system.

Fast + Epp is immensely proud to be contributing to the next generation of tall timber, and we are grateful for all our collaborators whose shared vision is driving innovation in our industry. Thank you NCSEA for the recognition!

Project team

Image on left of Associate, Jamie Pobre Sullivan accepting award, courtesy of NCSEA