{"id":4259,"date":"2012-10-05T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T05:10:06","slug":"government-grant-solidifies-interurban-building-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/10\/05\/government-grant-solidifies-interurban-building-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Government grant solidifies Interurban building plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the September 20 announcement of a $29.2-million grant from the provincial government, Camosun College is all set to go with its latest plan: the building of new trades and technology buildings. The new buildings will be located near the Interurban main campus, across the street where the Tillicum Lodge is currently situated, which puts the new buildings within easy walking distance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be two facilities where the Tillicum Lodge currently is,\u201d says Eric Sehn, Camosun\u2019s dean of trades and technologies. \u201cOne will be a marine and metals trade centre, and the other building will be a mechanical trades centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the provincial grant money will also be going towards the refurbishment of the Jack White and the John Drysdale buildings at the Interurban campus.<\/p>\n

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The current state of these buildings on the Interurban campus proves that upgrades are needed (photo by Lucas Milroy\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll be getting some upgrades and some refurbishing so we can get them into a contemporary state,\u201d says Sehn. \u201cA lot of the programs that are in the John Drysdale building will migrate to the Jack White building. And what will remain in the Jack White is a expanded centre for innovation and applied research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sehn also reports that the $29.2 million will not cover the complete cost of the planned buildings and renovations, and that the college will be looking to fundraise for an additional $800,000, bringing the total to $30 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing some fundraising, particularly around acquisition of the equipment,\u201d he says. \u201cSome of the upgrades that we want to do will have to come from sources other than the Advanced Education grant. People think that $29.2 million is a lot of money, which it is, but with projects like this it doesn\u2019t take very long for all the resources to be allocated.\u201d<\/p>\n

While current students will not get to experience the new buildings, as they are currently not set to be complete for three and a half years, some of them are already seeing the upsides.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome because trades have been kind of underutilized for as long as I can remember,\u201d says Danika Serafin, a sheet metal and fabrication student. \u201cSo now that they\u2019re being known, and more money is being put into it, you\u2019ll have more people interested. It also is helping draw in younger people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean Kelley, another student in the sheet metal and fabrication program, also recognizes the communal benefits of the project, mentioning how they\u2019ll be especially beneficial after the announcement of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy by the federal government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really going to help out at the dockyard with all the new ship building contracts, and will help to get that underway and put some workers in there,\u201d says Kelley.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sehn wants students to know that this project will be an advantage across the board, not just for the trades and those involved in them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main message here is that it is about more than just the trades,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about trades, it\u2019s about technology, it\u2019s about better serving the resource industry, aerospace, and, of course, the expanded applied research. It\u2019s a great thing for the trades and technology programs; it\u2019s excellent for the school, and it\u2019s a great benefit to the college and to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the September 20 announcement of a $29.2-million grant from the provincial government, Camosun College is all set to go with its latest plan: the building of new trades and technology buildings. The new buildings will be located near the Interurban main campus, across the street where the Tillicum Lodge is currently situated, which puts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue","category-news","category-october-3-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}