A construction manager for the new B.C. Institute of Technology (BCIT) Concert Properties Centre for Trades and Technology, a four-storey, 7,670-square-metre building with mass timber elements, should be announced by the end of summer.
“We are very close to awarding the contract for the construction management company,” said Wayne Hand, BCIT Dean of the School of Construction and the Environment.
The centre is the anchor of a $162.6 million Trades and Technology Complex (TTC) first phase build-out of four new trades structures and impacting 20 trades at the Burnaby campus.
“We are currently in the consulting phase,” Hand said, as construction has not started on any of the new proposed structures in the complex.
The centre is expected to begin construction in 2025 and be complete in the last quarter of 2027. He estimates construction on the other smaller complex buildings…
