For the second year in a row, BCIT President Kathy Kinloch has been ranked among Vancouver’s most powerful people. The 2016 Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 List recognizes Kathy’s leadership in building industry connections, lauding the Institute’s 2016 deals with Siemens Canada and BC Housing.
Kathy is joined on the prestigious list by Janet Austin, CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver, Jimmy Pattison, Chair and CEO, Jim Pattison Group, and Harjit Singh Sajjan, Minister of National Defence. See the whole list here.
This is 16th year for the list which ranks the 50 most powerful people in Vancouver.
Hello my name is Richard Yewchuk. I am an Intern Architect AIBC. I have a proposal for a new alternative path to Architectural licensure here in B.C. It is a two year post graduate diploma program in Architecture Internship to be offered to Intern Architects at community colleges here in B.C.
I have completed my masters degree in Architecture and am trying to get the required work experience hours in the Internship program to qualify to write my licensure exams to be an Architect here in British Columbia. But so far, have been unable to do it; and that’s because I have been unable to find an Intern Architect job here in Canada for the last six months now. So I suggest that Intern Architects be able to complete there internship at a local community college like B.C.I.T. , Vancouver Community College, or Camosun College. An Internship at a community college would be like a two year internship in an Architect’s office in that the assignments in the two year community college program would mirror exactly what Intern Architects would do in an architect’s office; as if the Intern was actually working in a genuine architects office; but the student wouldn’t get paid. There are several advantages to a two year community college diploma program that fulfills the experience requirement for licensure; chiefly it would be the improved quality of the work experience and exposure to a wider variety of buildings and tasks like re-zoning applications and high buildings for example; and also the fact that Interns could continue to get their experience hours even during downturns in the construction economy. I find it nearly impossible to find an internship job in B.C. lately because the architectural firms that I apply to always want an Intern with a minimum two years of experience. But how am I going to get the experience if I can’t get the job? CATCH 22 !!!
So please bring in a two year Architecture Internship program at some community colleges as an alternative route to gaining experience in an Architect’s office to obtain Architectural licensure here in British Columbia.