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DIGITAL-hosted Housing Growth Innovation Showcase brings government and industry together to demonstrate practical technologies accelerating housing delivery in B.C.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — British Columbia needs to build more homes, faster. Today, DIGITAL is hosting the Housing Growth Innovation Showcase in Victoria to spotlight made-in-B.C. solutions that are helping transform how homes are planned, designed, and built.
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The showcase focuses on DIGITAL’s Housing Growth Innovation (HGI) Program, supported by a $9 million investment from the B.C. Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs, and how it’s helping industry accelerate housing production across the full housing lifecycle – from design and digital tools to modular and offsite construction, supply-chain coordination, and workforce capacity.
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“There is so much creativity and innovation in the housing sector right now, and our government is glad to be a strong partner in it. We must continue to find new and better ways to speed up construction and help deliver the homes people need,” said Christine Boyle, Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs. “We’re excited to show how our work with DIGITAL’s Housing Growth Innovation Program is reducing the time and costs to deliver housing, to get people into their new homes sooner.”
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“Solving housing challenges requires more than one government, one company or one technology,” said Elysa Darling, Chief Operating Officer, DIGITAL. “It requires coordinated action across public and private sectors to modernize how housing gets delivered. Through the Housing Growth Innovation Program, DIGITAL is bringing partners, capital, and technology together to accelerate practical solutions that improve productivity and help build more homes for families in British Columbia.”
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Since the initial investment in 2023, DIGITAL has attracted additional investment totaling $14.4 million and engaged more than 50 sector partners, including Indigenous, regional communities, and private-sector companies, to drive rapid, results-oriented innovation across the housing construction sector.
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The program is generating measurable results, including:
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“B.C. is leading the charge on housing innovation. We have the talent, the ideas, and the will – what we don’t have yet is scale,” said Amy Vilis, Director of the HGI Program at DIGITAL. “Across 14 projects, we’re seeing four kinds of impact: tools and methods the whole sector can use, commercial products that keep IP and jobs in B.C., demonstrations built and measured on the ground, and the workforce and partnerships needed to carry the work forward. Some are already in market. Others are case studies that tell us what works and what doesn’t. That mix is the point. We designed HGI as an innovation stack across the housing production lifecycle – not a list of pilots – so the proven pieces can be implemented and scaled by any builder, municipality, or Nation, here in B.C. and across Canada.”
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