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At the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a new mass timber residence is showing how low-carbon student housing can be delivered quickly, efficiently, and at scale. The recently completed 12-story building adds 469 new beds, more than doubling on-campus housing capacity, and stands as Burnaby’s tallest mass timber structure. It also marks the first building on BCIT’s campus to achieve CAGBC | Canada Green Building Council’s Zero Carbon Building – Design Standard™ certification.  Using prefabrication, locally-sourced CLT panels, and all-electric systems, the residence reduced material waste, accelerated construction, and now serves as a living lab for students to engage with sustainable design strategies firsthand. “Proactively modelling the project’s embodied carbon enabled our team to understand where carbon savings could be realized in both the structure and envelope design,” says Kathy Wardle, our Regional Director of Regenerative Design.  Thanks to Canadian Architect magazine for the feature: https://lnkd.in/dTSQJXdb