Community engagement
– Phase 1 (October to December 2016)
During October and November, 2016 we heard from students, faculty, staff, and others who attended Open house sessions, participated in pop-up surveys on campus, and completed the five surveys posted on-line. We also had meetings with faculty and a workshop session with the BCIT Student Association Council.
By the numbers, you provided about 400 comments and ideas at open houses and workshops, completed over 1,800 surveys, and engaged in over 1,000 informal conversations with the planning team.
Campus Plan Launch Information [PDF], October 2016
Open House #1 Burnaby Campus Information [PDF], November 2 & 3, 2016
Open House #1 Comment Transcript [PDF], November 2 & 3, 2016
Open House #2 Downtown Campus Information [PDF], November 9, 2016
Open House #2 Comment Transcript [PDF], November 9, 2016
Student Council Workshop Feedback [PDF], November 14, 2016
Open House #3 Campus Plan Survey Results Information [PDF], November 30 & December 1, 2016
Your comments and suggestions together with technical background work helped generate ideas for planning directions to shape the plan. People who dropped by Open House #3 (November 30 and December 1, 2016) strongly supported the planning directions shown below:
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| Planning Directions | Response indicated at Open House #3 – November 30 & December 1, 2016 | |
|---|---|---|
| Campus Environment & Experience | Agree | Disagree |
| Accommodate more housing options … student residences, rental housing, and overnight accommodation | 61 | 2 |
| Create a denser campus core… more animated, more events, pedestrian friendly | 68 | 1 |
| Include more retail, service amenities | 43 | 5 |
| Improve food options…better quality and variety | 108 | 0 |
| Create more and better spaces for relaxing, studying, meeting… indoors and outdoor | 56 | 1 |
| Improve the safety of circulation…for pedestrians and cyclists | 21 | 0 |
| Add more green spaces…including urban character and natural character areas | 66 | 0 |
| Improve recreation and fitness facilities | 55 | 4 |
| Sustainability | Agree | Disagree |
| Reduce energy consumption and visibly monitor energy use | 69 | 2 |
| Expand and improve on-campus recycling systems | 63 | 2 |
| More demonstration projects –promote sustainable building design and green energy | 60 | 1 |
| Innovation & Collaboration | Agree | Disagree |
| Attract industry partners that can offer benefits to BCIT, students, and faculty | 79 | 2 |
| Integrate digital and physical infrastructure planning for the teaching and learning environment | 50 | 2 |
| Provide more supports for collaboration…flexible space, room booking systems, white boards, charging stations, adaptable furniture, networking apps, digital library resources. | 83 | 1 |
| Use group projects, competitions, and support for student clubs to stimulate collaboration across departments. | 42 | 1 |
| Build opportunities for collaboration and informal networking into program scheduling | 35 | 2 |
| Improve on-line courses by standardizing platforms and formats | 29 | 1 |
| Transportation & Parking | Agree | Disagree |
| Work with TransLink and Burnaby toward better transit service | 130 | 0 |
| Work with Burnaby on better cycle routes to the campus | 46 | 10 |
| Develop new BCIT apps and incentives to promote carpooling | 53 | 1 |
| Recognize that there will continue to be a need for parking because for some, a car is the only option | Added after Open House | |
– Phase 2 (April 2017)
Open House #4 Information [PDF], April 5 & 6, 2017
Feedback from Open House #4 showed strong support for the Draft Plan. Over the course of two days, the April Open houses saw 400 attendees and received 119 comment sheets. Here are the results:
Priorities survey (Fall 2015)
In the Fall 2015, Campus Development Division began identifying Emerging Directions through Initial Consultation. This included a Campus Community Priorities Survey, which was a web-based survey that identified key priorities based on the experience of students, staff, faculty and alumni. From Nov 16 to Dec 11, 2015, all students, faculty, staff, and alumni had the opportunity to provide feedback through the online survey.
Thank you to members of the BCIT community for participating in our Campus Plan Priorities Survey. The survey results were analyzed and summarized into categories that best reflect the topics of discussion received from open-ended questions. The PDF reports below will provide anonymous feedback from participants of the survey.
Click the titles below to view the summarized reports in PDF:
Transportation [PDF] (160 comments)
Sustainability [PDF] (77 comments)
Cycling and Walking [PDF] (117 comments)
Parking [PDF] (62 comments)
Greenspace [PDF] (160 comments)
Top 3 [PDF] (Summarized all results to find top 3)
Community [PDF] (114 comments)
Facilities [PDF] (258 comments)
Your Campus [PDF]
Full unedited results of the survey are available here [PDF].
What else did we learn?
Here are some highlights of the survey results.
We asked respondents to rank the sustainability topics below. The average weighted ranking is:
- Improve building energy performance
- Reduce solid waste sent to landfills
- Ecological preservation and restoration
- Improve alternative transportation options
- Reduce GHG emissions
- Improve storm water management (including rain gardens, Guichon Creek)
