The BCIT Facilities and Campus Development department is responsible for all of the higher level strategic planning and implementation of BCIT’s major facilities. Some of these responsibilities include: facilities and capital planning, space administration, design and construction. The department is responsible for producing the campus master plan. The Campus Master Plan prioritizes the requirement for new facilities and infrastructure. It provides the guidelines for land use which include future building locations, parking lots, green space, pedestrian walkways, vehicular roads, etc. In June of 2019 BCIT Facilities and Campus Development took over Parking Operations from Safety, Security & Emergency Management (SSEM).
The Pioneers Club was formed in February, 1994. Membership was composed of faculty and staff who were employed at BCIT on or prior to June 15, 1966 and who contributed to the establishment of the two year diploma programs.
An Advisory Council, made up of industry executives, recruited E. Cecil Roper from the Faculty of Commerce at UBC as the first Principal of BCIT. Roper, trained as a mining engineer, had earned an MBA after 20 years in the mining industry. Well connected to the world of B.C. industry, and equally well connected at UBC, Roper was able to attract faculty and staff from both arenas to work and volunteer for BCIT in its earliest days.
Dean of BCIT School of Health Sciences 2004-2006
President of British Columbia Institute of Technology 2014-
David Alexander Hume was a BCIT project coordinator. He was also a Provincial Consultant at BCIT in 1979, when he had the opportunity to give Jack White—one of BCIT’s “founding fathers”—a tour of the “new” BCIT campus 15 years after its initial opening.
An endowment called the Dogwood Award was established in 1987 by David Hume to provide a first year achievement award to a student in Geomatics Engineering Technology.
Richard Forbes-Roberts, sometimes called “Dick”, was the manager of the Canada Employment Centre on the BCIT campus. He would advise students on matter of employment, such as finding summer jobs, through interviews for The Link and BCIT Messenger, as well as in his day-to-day work.
David Bernard served as the BCIT spokesman during the instructors’ strike in 1999, and worked in Public Affairs at BCIT at the time.