Campus Master Plan
The role of the Campus Development Plan is is to provide the coordinating strategy and context for "learning and teaching" and represents a framework for the process of change so that the whole will always be more than the sum of its parts. The plan is both product and process thereby achieving continuity beyond a single building and encouraging orderly campus development within available resources and the unique regional environment.
2025
TRU’s Campus Master Plan guides decisions about campus planning and development. The 2013 plan is currently being refreshed to reflect changes in campus needs, potential developments and future growth opportunities.
Over the past year, the TRU community provided input on key areas of the plan, and those updates are now available.
Key updates include:
- Potential developments related to active transportation, including a pedestrian overpass and bus loop considerations in partnership with the City of Kamloops.
- New real estate acquisitions and land allocations for future TRU Trust developments.
- Corrections to assumptions made in 2013 that are no longer accurate.
Watch the presentation and provide feedback
A recorded presentation of the Campus Master Plan Refresh: Updates and Discussion session is now available.
Submit your feedback before Feb. 21.
Your feedback is essential in ensuring the plan reflects the needs of the TRU community before it goes to the Board of Governors in March.
About the Campus Master Plan Refresh
The refresh maintains the original vision and purpose of the 2013 Campus Master Plan while updating key areas to align with TRU’s long-term academic and research goals.
The four core drivers of the Campus Master Plan remain:
- Creating a destination campus with a strong identity
- Densifying the academic core for a more integrated learning environment
- Supporting TRU’s academic and research growth
- Developing the University Village to enhance campus life and community engagement
2015
At the February 13, 2015 TRU Board of Governors' meeting the 2015 Campus Master Plan Summary and Implementation Report was approved. This document outlines the design guidelines for campus development.
2013
The 2013 Campus Development Plan was undertaken to reflect the campus expansion of the last decade and to set the state for future development tied to the new academic plan, research plan, enrolment growth and the Thompson Rivers University Community Trust (TRUCT) initiatives.
This plan was conceived in three phases, each driven by student enrolment thresholds. The plan also laid out a palette of building design characteristics which allowed for the development of unique architectural responses to each new building while maintaining a visual coherence among buildings.
The 2013 Campus Master Plan (8 MB) was adopted by the TRU Board of Governors on February 14, 2014.
2003
The second plan was completed in 2003. This was built on the 1991 plan and was developed for the university by Stantec Consulting. The 2003 plan set a spatial and design context which governed the rapid expansion, continued growth of the Kamloops campus, landscape design plan and identified lands for endowment purposes (The Reach).
2001
The McGill Corridor/Southgate Project began in Spring 2001 as a joint project between Thompson Rivers University (formerly the University College of the Cariboo) and the City of Kamloops. The project developed into a land use and design concept plan for McGill Road and the Southgate Industrial Park.
1991
A long term plan was prepared in January 1991 by Downs/Archambault and Partners as a strategic instrument, both to guide the physical expansion of the College Campus and to provide an effective transition for Cariboo College from community college to university college to an independent university.
