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Commercial & industrial GC · Est. 1998

Welding student in a helmet and gloves working at a bench while an instructor watches the arc

P-06 Education

Calder Technical College Trades Hall

Calder Technical College

A trades-education hall with shop bays, overhead cranes and dust systems: a small industrial plant wearing a college crest.

Size
68,000 SF
Contract value
$38M
Duration
16 months
Delivery method
CM at Risk
Status
2025
Sector
Education
Location
Calder Technical College

N-01 The brief

Calder Technical College's new Trades Hall had to be both a classroom and a working industrial environment: welding bays with real fume extraction, a 10-ton teaching crane, automotive lifts, and acoustic separation good enough that a lecture could survive next door to a metal shop.

N-02 The build

CM at risk alongside the college's architect, with our own superintendents (several of them alumni) reviewing every shop layout for how the trades actually teach. Long-lead crane and dust-collection packages were bought at design development. Our apprenticeship partnership with the college put six Meridian apprentices on their own future campus.

N-03 The handover

Opened for fall intake as promised. The GMP closed with contingency returned, and the welding program doubled its enrollment within one academic year of opening.

The owner's view

“They reviewed every shop layout the way our instructors actually teach. Six of their apprentices helped build the hall they now study in.”

Margaret Lindqvist, Dean of Trades and Technology, Calder Technical College Fictional reference

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