Canada, BC Invest $90 Million in New SFU Energy Systems Engineering Building

November 20, 2016

The federal and BC governments have committed to investing $90-million investment in a new energy systems engineering building at Simon Fraser University. The funding was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and BC Premier Christy Clark (shown in photo).

The funding will support the construction of a new building for degree programs in energy systems and environmental engineering. The five-storey, 15,000-square-metre building will allow the university to expand its research in the energy, hydrogen, electricity and liquefied natural gas sectors. The building will also accommodate the Mechatronics Systems Engineering program, which combines the fields of mechanical, electrical and software engineering with entrepreneurship and business.

The new space will be dedicated to students commercializing their research through the Technology Entrepreneurship program. Federal-provincial investments in this project include:

• $45 million from the Government of Canada

• $45 million from the Province of British Columbia

Simon Fraser University and private donors will contribute $26 million toward a second phase of the project, and the university is also contributing land valued at $10 million, for a total project value of $126 million.