The University of Victoria (UVIC) is expanding its Civil Engineering campus with two new net-zero, mass-timber buildings that reimagine how architecture can support teaching, research, and climate action. Designed by Dialog, the project includes a six-storey expansion to the Engineering & Computer Science building (ECSE) and a new, purpose-built High Bay Research & Structures Lab (HBRSL). Together, the buildings are designed not simply as places to learn, but as fully instrumented “living laboratories”. …The ECSE’s structure incorporates a hybrid-mass timber system with cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor panels and steel columns and beams, while the HBRSL building incorporates glue-laminated (glulam) beams, columns and CLT floor panels. …Slated for completion later this year, the project has already achieved Zero Carbon Building accreditation and is targeting LEED Gold certification, in alignment with the Canada Green Building Council’s Zero Carbon Building Standards and the International Living Future Institute’s Zero Carbon framework.