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Pippin & CHOA Research Project:
Open Call for Strata Corporations
Open Call for Strata Corporations
The Condominium Home Owners Association of BC (CHOA) and Pippin are excited to launch a collaborative research initiative aimed at improving strata building communication, management and operations for owners and council members in British Columbia. This project seeks to engage up to five diverse strata corporations as test participants for Pippin, the first-ever building management software tailored specifically for BC strata councils.
Project Details
Participants will contribute to a CHOA-led study aimed at enhancing strata management practices through innovative technology. During the project, participants will be granted free access and use of Pippin’s communication and building operations platform for up to 1 year in exchange for feedback in the research project. We are looking for a mix of property types, including:
• 2 High-Rise Building (13+ floors)
• 2 Mid-Rise Buildings (6-12 floors)
• 2 Low-Rise Building (2-4 floors / wood frame)
• 2 Townhouse Strata
• 2 Bare Land Strata
• 2 Mid-Rise Buildings (6-12 floors)
• 2 Low-Rise Building (2-4 floors / wood frame)
• 2 Townhouse Strata
• 2 Bare Land Strata
All applications must be received before June 30, 2025, to ensure selection within the limited test sample. The application selection process will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis and suitability for the research project. Selected participants will be notified within the submission deadline period. Pippin and CHOA will jointly select participants to ensure a balanced representation across different property types and strata compositions.
For more information see details below.
For more information see details below.
Apply to Join the Project
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Pippin Core Services
Pippin offers a suite of cutting-edge tools designed to streamline and enhance the daily operations of strata corporations. As part of this research project, you will gain access to:
Owner Virtual Assistant: Real-time answers to questions about the building, rules, and processes based on building documentation and the BC Strata Property Act and Regulations. The virtual assistant also automates the collection of information for owner requests.
Issue Tracking: Maintains an auditable history of all activities and issues within the building.
Council Discussions: Facilitates discussions between council members and seamlessly coordinates repairs with vendors and owners. Voting is directly built into the discussion area to get approvals on monetary decisions or workflows that require council sign-off.
Real-Time Knowledge Base: Continuously up-to-date knowledge base that evolves as council answers questions and issues are resolved.
Meeting Agendas and Minutes Creator (Coming Soon): Pippin generates meeting agendas based on previous discussions and issue progression and then automatically drafts meeting minutes, ensuring accurate and consistent records.
Yearly Maintenance Scheduler (Coming Soon): Develops and manages yearly maintenance schedules with automated reminders for key dates, benefiting both councils and owners.
Issue Tracking: Maintains an auditable history of all activities and issues within the building.
Council Discussions: Facilitates discussions between council members and seamlessly coordinates repairs with vendors and owners. Voting is directly built into the discussion area to get approvals on monetary decisions or workflows that require council sign-off.
Real-Time Knowledge Base: Continuously up-to-date knowledge base that evolves as council answers questions and issues are resolved.
Meeting Agendas and Minutes Creator (Coming Soon): Pippin generates meeting agendas based on previous discussions and issue progression and then automatically drafts meeting minutes, ensuring accurate and consistent records.
Yearly Maintenance Scheduler (Coming Soon): Develops and manages yearly maintenance schedules with automated reminders for key dates, benefiting both councils and owners.
Benefits to Strata Corporations
For owners, Pippin is as easy as using Google or messaging on your cellphone, and you instantly have access to all the information you’re entitled to as an owner. For council members, you will no longer worry about:
• Disjointed email threads because people forget to “reply all” or try to limit the amount of noise to the entire council.
• Losing important information buried in email accounts that disappears when new councils are elected.
• Forgetting key maintenance dates and sending out notices to owners.
• Spending hours compiling your meeting agendas and inevitably forgetting to address all the items.
• Understanding the impact of emergency maintenance on your annual operating budget.
• Losing important information buried in email accounts that disappears when new councils are elected.
• Forgetting key maintenance dates and sending out notices to owners.
• Spending hours compiling your meeting agendas and inevitably forgetting to address all the items.
• Understanding the impact of emergency maintenance on your annual operating budget.
Eligibility Requirements
To qualify for participation in the Pippin & CHOA Research Project, strata corporations must meet the following eligibility criteria:
• Must be a registered strata corporation within British Columbia, Canada.
• Willingness to actively commit to a 1-year test period utilizing Pippin’s core services and provide feedback at least once every 3 months through one designated council member.
• Agreement to allow Pippin and CHOA to collect and analyze data for research purposes, with confidentiality and privacy maintained as per relevant regulations.
• Willingness to actively commit to a 1-year test period utilizing Pippin’s core services and provide feedback at least once every 3 months through one designated council member.
• Agreement to allow Pippin and CHOA to collect and analyze data for research purposes, with confidentiality and privacy maintained as per relevant regulations.
In the event of oversubscription, Pippin reserves the right to contact participants not included in the research study to discuss opportunities to work directly with Pippin. If any strata corporations are interested in Pippin’s offerings but do not wish to be part of the research study, we’d be happy to speak with you — please schedule a call with our team here.