Construction Officially Starts on TEC Centre at CNC
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PRINCE GEORGE - Provincial, federal and college representatives officially broke ground today for the new $19.7-million Technical Education Centre at the College of New Caledonia's Prince George campus. The project will create over 126 direct jobs.
The Technical Education Centre includes a total area of about 7,000 square metres of instructional shops, classrooms, lab and office space and will house training programs in welding, machinist, industrial mechanic/millwright, planermill technician, automotive collision
repair, plumbing, engineering technology, mining technician, process operations, transportation and logistics, and environmental technician.
It is scheduled for completion in February 2011.
When completed the TEC will enable an additional 360 full-time equivalent student training spaces and over time there will be an additional 22 instructor and staff positions created in Prince George.
"It's wonderful to see us actually breaking ground on this project and being a step closer to providing improved and expanded instructional space for our students," said CNC President John Bowman. "The local MLAs and MPs really fought hard for this funding and we very much appreciate their efforts."
Along with construction of the new TEC building, CNC has renovated the John Brink Trades and Technology Building, turning about 500 square metres of unfinished space into classrooms, a multi-purpose lab, and instructor offices.
CNC also received $9.8 million to construct a new trades and technology training building on their Quesnel campus.
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Posted by: supertech on October 15 2009 9:17 PM
Gee, is that like 126.75 direct jobs? Does the funding include the wages and burden for all of these new jobs?
Anyway, it is good news that the government saw fit to fund this project. I think that it may enable more people to access training in the trades. One thing though, is there really going to be much of a demand in the future for sawmill related trades such as "planer mill technician"? Millwrights I can see, as there are a variety of plants that require that trade.
metalman.