role: Project Coordinator and Grant Holder. BC Housing plays a central role in guiding the project. As a Project Coordinator, BC Housing contributes insights from provincial policy frameworks and operational knowledge from affordable housing development and management. BC Housing supports stakeholder engagement, shares contributed documentation, and helps ensure BPiBS outcomes align with real-world applications in British Columbia’s housing landscape. Wilma Leung, Senior Manager, Technical Research & Education, wileung@bchousing.org https://www.bchousing.org/
BC Hydro
role: BC Hydro contributes expertise on energy systems integration in buildings, particularly around renewable electricity use, and grid interactivity. BC Hydro involvement supports BPiBS pathways related to Energy & Thermal Systems and the implementation of low-carbon, high-efficiency technologies in housing. BC Hydro also provides critical data and guidance on electric heat pump adoption and energy resilience strategies. https://www.bchydro.com
HICC
role: Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) acts as a federal policy and strategic partner in the BPiBS project, providing leadership and aligning the project's initiatives with national housing, infrastructure, and community development goals. HICC contributes policy insights, funding support frameworks, and guidance on integrating federal sustainability standards and targets. Their involvement helps ensure that BPiBS outcomes are relevant across Canada’s diverse regions and communities, fostering alignment with federal programs and enhancing nationwide scalability of housing best practices. https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca
NRC
role: NRC is a strategic research partner in BPiBS, with a focus on aligning the project with national innovation and sustainability goals. They help structure knowledge needs across technical, social, and environmental dimensions. NRC’s role is also to evaluate and validate best practices and co-guide the research agenda, ensuring BPiBS outputs contribute to broader national frameworks and scientific rigor. https://nrc.canada.ca/en
Technical Safety BC
role: Technical Safety BC provides regulatory and technical insight into the safety dimensions of building innovation. Their contribution helps the BPiBS database and roadmap include considerations for compliance, inspection, and system-level safety integration, especially in areas like electrification, mechanical systems, and renewables. They support enabling activities that promote safe scaling of emerging technologies within BC’s housing sector. https://www.technicalsafetybc.ca/
University of Victoria
role: UVic leads the research and knowledge mobilization work in the BPiBS project. Through the Department of Civil Engineering and the support of IESVic, UVic anchors the graph database development, stakeholder engagement coordination, methodological development, Futures Impact Design and Strategic Outcomes. UVic also manages the data model that structures the Dimensions, Pathways, and Information Elements for the roadmapping activities. https://www.uvic.ca/ecs/civil/index.php