{"id":29,"date":"2025-03-23T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/bpibs\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:57:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/bpibs\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About BPiBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada faces an urgent need to build an estimated 3.5 million homes by 2030<\/a>, a 35% increase to the current housing stock, to meet affordability targets while navigating fragmented building systems and outdated practices. The Best Practices in Building Systems (BPiBS) initiative responds to this challenge through a collaborative intelligence approach designed to support whole-system transformation in housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by BC Housing, in strategic partnership with the University of Victoria and funded through the Government of Canada’s HICC-RKI program, BPiBS aims to help accelerate whole-system alignment in industry, regulatory and education spheres towards addressing existing challenges and emerging needs for quick adoption of emerging best practices to meet Canada\u2019s housing needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In essence, while the need for more housing is clear, it is equally vital that we not only build more, but build well\u2014housing that is affordable, adequate, high-quality, and environmentally sustainable, meeting the needs of today and into the future. This imperative is at the core of why BPiBS was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BPiBS revealed the need for new approaches that could connect technical insight with lived experience, and innovation with action. This led to the development of KIND<\/a><\/strong>\u2014short for Knowledge Integration Networks for New Directions and Designs<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KIND supports collaboration across sectors by bringing together diverse forms of knowledge, community-based wisdom, and technical expertise. Its goal is to support more thoughtful designs and processes to guide more effective, inclusive directions for housing and infrastructure systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n



Le Canada fait face \u00e0 un besoin urgent de construire environ 3,8 millions de logements d\u2019ici 2030<\/a>, soit une augmentation de 35 % du parc immobilier actuel, afin d\u2019atteindre les objectifs d\u2019abordabilit\u00e9 tout en faisant face \u00e0 des syst\u00e8mes de construction fragment\u00e9s et \u00e0 des pratiques d\u00e9pass\u00e9es. L\u2019initiative Best Practices in Building Systems (BPiBS) r\u00e9pond \u00e0 ce d\u00e9fi \u00e0 travers une approche d\u2019intelligence collaborative con\u00e7ue pour soutenir une transformation globale des syst\u00e8mes du logement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dirig\u00e9e par BC Housing, en partenariat strat\u00e9gique avec l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Victoria et financ\u00e9e dans le cadre du programme HICC-RKI du gouvernement du Canada, l\u2019initiative BPiBS vise \u00e0 acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer l\u2019alignement des syst\u00e8mes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle de l\u2019industrie, de la r\u00e9glementation et de l\u2019\u00e9ducation afin de r\u00e9pondre aux d\u00e9fis actuels et aux besoins \u00e9mergents, tout en facilitant l\u2019adoption rapide des meilleures pratiques pour r\u00e9pondre aux besoins en logement au Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En substance, bien que le besoin de construire davantage de logements soit clair, il est tout aussi essentiel de construire mieux \u2014 des logements abordables, ad\u00e9quats, de haute qualit\u00e9 et \u00e9cologiquement durables, capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui et de demain. Cet imp\u00e9ratif est au c\u0153ur de la cr\u00e9ation de BPiBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BPiBS a mis en \u00e9vidence la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de nouvelles approches capables de relier les connaissances techniques \u00e0 l\u2019exp\u00e9rience v\u00e9cue, ainsi que l\u2019innovation \u00e0 l\u2019action. Cela a conduit au d\u00e9veloppement de KIND<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> \u2014 acronyme de Knowledge Integration Networks for New Directions and Designs<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KIND soutient la collaboration intersectorielle en r\u00e9unissant diverses formes de savoirs, des connaissances ancr\u00e9es dans les communaut\u00e9s et une expertise technique. Son objectif est de favoriser des conceptions et des processus plus r\u00e9fl\u00e9chis afin d\u2019orienter des trajectoires plus efficaces et inclusives pour les syst\u00e8mes de logement et d\u2019infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada through the\u00a0Research and Knowledge Initiative (RKI)<\/a>, delivered and supported by Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada to advance housing and infrastructure projects across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Ce projet est financ\u00e9 en partie par le gouvernement du Canada dans le cadre de l\u2019Initiative de recherche et de connaissances (IRC), mise en \u0153uvre et soutenue par Logement, Infrastructures et Collectivit\u00e9s Canada, afin de faire progresser les projets de logement et d\u2019infrastructure \u00e0 travers le pays.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Our team works across the unceded territories of many Indigenous Peoples, including the Algonquin Anishinaabe (Ottawa), Mississaugas of the Credit, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat (Toronto), Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver), k\u02b7ik\u02b7\u0259\u019b\u0313\u0259m (Coquitlam), l\u0259k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u014b\u0259n and W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 Peoples (Victoria), and the Tla-o-qui-aht and Nuu-chah-nulth Nations (Tofino).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recognize that land acknowledgment is not the work itself, but a reminder of our ongoing responsibilities\u2014relational, material, and ethical\u2014to the peoples and places that continue to steward these lands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We commit to unsettling extractive habits in our work and to walking, with humility, toward deeper accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Notre \u00e9quipe travaille sur les territoires non c\u00e9d\u00e9s de nombreux peuples autochtones, notamment les Algonquins Anishinaabe (Ottawa), les Mississaugas de Credit, les Haudenosaunee et les Hurons-Wendat (Toronto), les Musqueam, Squamish et Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver), les k\u02b7ik\u02b7\u0259\u019b\u0313\u0259m (Coquitlam), les peuples l\u0259k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u014b\u0259n et W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 (Victoria), ainsi que les nations Tla-o-qui-aht et Nuu-chah-nulth (Tofino).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nous reconnaissons que la reconnaissance territoriale n\u2019est pas une fin en soi, mais un rappel de nos responsabilit\u00e9s continues \u2014 relationnelles, mat\u00e9rielles et \u00e9thiques \u2014 envers les peuples et les territoires qui continuent de prendre soin de ces terres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nous nous engageons \u00e0 remettre en question les logiques extractives dans notre travail et \u00e0 avancer, avec humilit\u00e9, vers une responsabilit\u00e9 plus profonde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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