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Sault College — Sault Ste. Marie

Project: Campus Redevelopment

Total Project Cost:
$24,978,431
Total KIP Funding:
$8,000,000

Status of Project: Substantially completed

Project Description

This project involves construction of a new 100,000 square foot academic wing. The new wing consists of flexible learning spaces, with new classrooms and laboratories, and a reconfigured gateway main entrance.

Primary Areas of Benefit

  1. Expands or enhances utility of training space: The expanded classrooms and laboratories enhance training space at Sault College in various Red Seal trades programs. The expansion enables Sault College to increase enrolment by 700 students over the next 3–5 years. In addition, the college is ideally situated to take a leadership role in energy and the environment training, such as wind turbines, biofuels and solar energy.
  2. Improves energy efficiency: The high performance new construction program was utilized during the construction of this new facility, thus resulting in energy efficient measures to reduce peak electric demands. State of the art energy efficient heating and cooling systems were installed resulting energy savings and an estimated reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 41.3 tonnes of CO2 per year.

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Web CameraWatch the construction unfold live via web camera (Sault College web site)

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