When the University of Victoria’s new National Centre for Indigenous Law (NCIL) opens this summer it will be a major step in fulfilling Recommendation 50 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission… The structure’s footprint will be firmly rooted in Indigenous design, culture and values. The new structure built by Chandos Construction as an addition the Fraser Building will showcase the home for Canada’s first British common law and Indigenous legal practices degree program started in 2018. But it will also combine innovative North American building concepts such as mass timber with the Indigenous values and environmental concerns. A highly-sophisticated moisture control system was developed for its mass timber construction. …The structure features a CLT roof on supported timbers, some of which were repurposed trees removed from the site. The sculptural cladding panels echo the silhouettes of Coast Salish canoes and paddles.