BPiBS project team was excited to take part in the CHBA Home Building Week in Canada 2025, a national gathering of industry leaders, policymakers, innovators, and researchers focused on the future of housing in Canada.
Our participation reinforced and deepened the strategic direction of the BPiBS initiative, which aims to accelerate whole-system alignment across the housing sector. The themes explored, such as Net Zero innovation, modular pathways, code reform, municipal benchmarking, equity, and Indigenous partnerships directly correspond with BPiBS’s interdisciplinary and iterative approach to knowledge mobilization.

Key takeaways:

• Roadmapping Emerging Practices: The detailed case studies, costing tools, and policy advocacy strategies presented at CHBA align with BPiBS’s iterative roadmap development. They offer valuable benchmarks and contextual insights to support our ongoing scenario planning and best practice identification across both urban and rural housing systems.
• Inclusive Systems Integration: The emphasis on Indigenous partnerships, modular innovation, and equity-focused design connects directly with our focus on environmental sustainability, health equity, and social value. These insights reinforce the need for adaptable, culturally responsive solutions in our roadmap.
• Code Reform and Regulatory Harmonization: The CHBA Municipal Benchmarking Study, costing archetype, and recommendations for a National Code Interpretation Centre validate BPiBS’s emphasis on regulatory transformation. These examples support our goals of streamlining compliance, improving accountability, and ensuring practical implementation pathways for emerging standards.
• Knowledge Infrastructure and Mobilization: CHBA’s Member Knowledge Centre and Tech Essentials illustrate the type of structured knowledge repository BPiBS is developing. These platforms highlight effective strategies for bridging data, policy, and practice, strengthening our curriculum integration, training development, and stakeholder feedback loops.
• Enabling Innovation through Collaboration: The event’s collaborative format underscored the importance of sector-spanning engagement, a central principle in BPiBS. We are encouraged to continue fostering relationships across government, industry, academia, and communities to guide collective action toward affordable, resilient and inclusive housing futures.

Ultimately, our presence at CHBA affirmed that BPiBS is not only timely but vital. The roadmap we are shaping, with its focus on adaptability, shared accountability, and multi-stakeholder impact, is aimed to offer a crucial platform for translating research and lived expertise into transformative housing practices.