Three Nova Scotia Community College campuses are to receive a total of $24 million for new residences and centres.
NSCC president Don Bureaux, Annapolis Valley campus principal Wayne St-Armour, Premier Stephen McNeil and Advanced Education Minister Labi Kousoulis announced the capital projects at the Valley campus on Monday.
A new 40-bed residence and a 27,000-square-foot business research centre, totalling roughly $9 million, are to be built at the Valley campus, NSCC said in a news release.
A second residence is to be built on the Strait Area campus in Port Hawkesbury. The residence will have 51 beds and is expected to cost $7 million.
A three-storey information technology innovation centre is planned for the Institute of Technology campus in Halifax. The $8-million centre will house information technology, analytics and health information management programs, said the release.
“We’re looking forward to the exciting possibilities these new spaces and resources will create for students to open doors to exciting careers in growing sectors of our economy and have the space to collaborate with business on research and applied learning,” said Bureaux.
Kousoulis added the new projects “will help NSCC prepare job-ready graduates in critical areas like IT, marine training and geomatics.”
Both residences are expected to be completed by September 2020, while January 2021 is the anticipated completion date for the two centres, said a NSCC spokeswoman.
