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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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