Offered by British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada, Building Construction Technology Associate Certificate - Part-Time is a certificate in Information Systems & Technology programme. The programme runs for 7 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
The certificate targets people working in, or hoping to move into, housing and small-building design and construction, including those handling construction documents, supplying or installing materials, preparing estimates, or working in municipal offices. Course topics include construction, architectural planning, estimating, residential landscape design, and architectural CAD rendering.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: No formal course prerequisite applies to the six required courses, though BCIT recommends a Grade 10 education or equivalent for success; one advanced course, BLDC 2050, does require 50% in BLDC 1050. Beyond that single course-level exception, the program page defers to BCIT's general Flexible Learning entrance standards rather than setting certificate-specific academic prerequisites. English language proficiency follows BCIT's Category 3 standard, English Studies 12 at 50% or equivalent. This certificate is delivered through Flexible Learning and is not available to international students. No portfolio, interview or work-experience condition is stated.
Application Details
Start Date:January, April and September
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
