“We put together this associate certificate in the construction of mass timber structures and it was targeted around hiring and training a combination of an ironworker and a carpenter.” “The second component we identified was that the industry said there’s a shortage of tradespeople everywhere right now, for whatever you’re doing, but specifically with people who have experience or knowledge in terms of how to actually assemble mass timber buildings,” Hand said. WARREN FREY - BCIT School of Construction and the Environment dean Wayne Hand (middle, in sunglasses) poses with students and dignitaries at the Applied Mass Timber Build Open House on Aug. He added industry leaders including engineering, trade suppliers, building envelope consultants, structural engineers and architects were consulted and from those discussions came an eight-week “micro-credential” program in mass timber construction which was launched a year-and-a-half ago with over 200 students eventually going through the course.

We met with industries recognizing that there was an interest in offsite construction and specifically around mass timber buildings, and we wanted, from BCIT’s perspective, to find out what are the skill gaps that we could effectively address in our training program,” Hand said. “The lead up to this program, for which we finished off the pilot today, was started a number of years ago. 15 at its Burnaby campus to highlight student work using mass timber materials and introduce its new Construction of Mass Timber Structures associate certificate program.īCIT School of Construction and the Environment dean Wayne Hand said the new program grew from extensive industry consultation and a previous mass-timber “micro-certificate” pilot program. The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is doubling down on building up mass timber training.īCIT held an Applied Mass Timber Build Open House on Aug.

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