Campus and Community Planning

Campus planning guides the evolution of KPU's physical campuses while supporting KPU's vision, mission and ongoing academic needs. These activities are guided by the KPU2050 Official Campus Plan (2021). This plan provides direction for major new construction, repair, renovation and adaptive reuse of campus buildings and grounds along with transportation and movement patterns.

As a leader in energy conservation for more than a decade, sustainability is part of KPU's ethos and involves many departments. Our sustainable development and design efforts are guided by the KPU2050 Official Campus Plan Sustainability Framework that provides a greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategy, timeline and targets, as well as a framework for sustainability actions in KPU's governance, academics, operations, and physical campuses.

The way our campuses evolve can affect our on- and off-campus communities. Campus and Community Planning community engagement activities invite KPU's employees, students and faculties to provide input into each major planning and capital project. We also maintain relationships with local Indigenous communities and civic, regional, provincial and federal governments as part ongoing engagement efforts with campus neighbours.

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Campus and Community Planning is responsible for putting together KPU's annual capital plan submission to the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training (MAEST), which provides potential funding opportunities toward KPU's capital needs. We oversee major capital construction projects, ensuring they reflect the directions and principles outlined in KPU's Official Campus Plan.

KPU owns more than one hundred acres of property south of the Fraser River. This includes more than 100,000,000 ft² of classroom, research and administrative facilities. Campus and Community Planning manages these real estate assets, including KPU’s leases and licensing agreements.

From June 3-9, KPU's Office of Sustainability and the Kwantlen Student Association encouraged all campus members to "Go Sustainably" when commuting to, from, and between campuses.