The 515 West Hastings location of the SFU Vancouver campus offers several computing facilities in support of its programs. The Royal Bank Instructional Computing Centre is located on the main floor; the Himie Koshevoy Publishing Lab is located on the second floor; there is an additional computing lab located on the seventh floor. The Royal Bank Instructional Computing Centre consists of a Macintosh and IBM teaching lab, and an additional lab with IBM and Macintosh computers that is used as a drop-in facility. The Himie Koshevoy Publishing Lab offers a Macintosh workstation teaching facility that is designed to support the publishing community at SFU. The 7th floor lab offers additional Windows-based workstations.
Users must be part of the University community (including students enrolled in credit or non-credit study), and must present a valid SFU library card, or an authorized provisional usage card, before using the facilities.
Hours
The computing lab facilites are open for drop-in use during the hours shown below, unless the lab has been booked for a credit or non-credit course. Bookings are posted regularly outside the lab facilities. Please note that these hours are subject to change without notice, and that there are regular closures for lab maintenance during each semester break. You may phone (778) 782-5030 to inquire whether a specific lab has been booked.
Monday-Thursday 9:00 am-10:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am- 7:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am- 5:00 pm (closed noon to 1:00 pm)
Computing facilities rental
Our computing labs may also be rented by off-campus groups for educational and training purposes. Visit the Meeting and Event Services web pages for more information on computing lab rentals (including current lab rental rates).
Network connection charges
Connection charges apply to all new network connections to offices at the SFU Vancouver campus. They are intended to amortize the cost of the networking hardware that is needed to make a connection.
New 10 Mbit Ethernet connection: $250New 100 Mbit Ethernet connection: $450