― Career and Technical Education
Designing today for the workforce of tomorrow
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Introduction ― 4 Selected Projects ― 6 Our Team ― 36
Front Cover: CREATE - Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise Left and above: University of Waterloo, Engineering Building 7 Right: Clemson University, Watt Innovation Center
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Career and Technical Education
Designing Today for the Workforce of Tomorrow.
Employers and the State Department tell us there’s a skills gap. With current jobs evolving and new jobs being created, how do we prepare our children for a world we can’t predict? How do we teach them to be agile enough to take on any job and be nimble enough to jump jobs as those jobs change? How do we help current employees retrain to meet the evolving needs of their employers or to succeed in self-employment? A growing answer to that is strong career and technical education (CTE). No longer the limited vocational training of the 1980s, CTE embodies a broad assemblage of programs and pathways aimed at producing workers whose skills match economic demands in areas as diverse as business, health sciences, information technology, agriculture, and hospitality. Career and Technical Education focuses on student success, aligning the needs of employers with workforce and talent development.
← CREATE - Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise
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― Career and Technical Education
Selected Projects
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Sir Sandford Fleming College, Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre Peterborough, Ontario Client: Sir Sandford Fleming College Size: 8,083 square meters (87,000 square feet) Completion Date: 2014 Awards: Merit Award, SCUP AIA/CAE Excellence in Architecture, 2016 Good Design is Good Business, Architectural Record, 2016 Award for Architecture abd Learning, Architizer A+ Awards, 2016
― WHAT IT IS
A joining of theoretical teaching and applied learning featuring a flexible, multidisciplinary project space called the ‘learning factory’.
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Sir Sandford Fleming College, Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre ― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Fleming wanted to address the issue of gender disparity. In the first three years since the building opened, the percentage of women in the program increased from 2% to 12%.
Newport News Shipbuilding, Apprentice School Newport News, Virginia Client: Commonwealth of Virginia Size: 418,700 square feet (38,899 square meters) Completion Date: 2013 Sustainability: LEED GoldÂŽ Partners: Armada Hoffler Development Company
― WHAT IT IS
Two and a half contiguous city blocks became the home of the Apprentice School, including the school, dormitories, market housing, and a parking deck around an academic core in the form of a formal green space.
Newport News Shipbuilding, Apprentice School
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
This Public Private Partnership created an academic campus setting and established a safe, sustainable, and visually distinctive development for the Apprentice School students, residents, faculty, staff, and visitors.
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Humber College, Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation Toronto, Ontario Client: Humber College Size: 8,175 square meters (88,000 square feet ) Completion Date: 2019 Sustainability: LEED Registered
― WHAT IT IS
Rather than traditional classrooms, the BCTI has a series of flexible module spaces for short-term and long-term project work, where students, faculty, and industry partners can research, fabricate, and explore together.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Fabrication and machine shops equipped with flexible power, data, and pneumatics, movable partitions, embedded meeting rooms, and storage areas establish a dynamic learning warehouse designed to be easily re-configurable for a range of project types and scales.
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Humber College, Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation
Collin College, Collin Technical Training Center Allen, Texas Client: Collin College Size: 340,000 square feet (31,587 square meters) Completion Date: 2020
― WHAT IT IS
Designed to house a wide array of needed trades and technical instructional spaces including stateof-the-art Construction Trades, HVAC, Metals Labs, Automotive Repair, Allied Health programs, and Electronics.
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Collin College, Collin Technical Training Center
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
A model for trades and technical career instruction in the industry and offering continuing education opportunities for corporate training and workforce partnerships.
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Training and Education Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing and Alternative and Renewable Technologies (TEC-SMART) New York State Energy and Research Development Agency, Hudson Valley Community College Malta, New York Client: New York State Energy and Research Development Agency, Hudson Valley Community College Size: Size: 42,000 square feet (3,900 square meters) Completion Date: 2010 Sustainability: LEED PlatinumÂŽ
― WHAT IT IS
TEC-SMART allows the New York State Energy and Research Development Agency (NYSERDA) and Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) to train students to work in sustainable manufacturing.
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Sir Sandford Fleming College, Kawartha Trades and Technology Centre
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
Featuring more than a dozen state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, TEC-SMART trains the workforce in emerging technologies and accelerates economic growth by training skilled technicians for these businesses as well as for the growing renewable energy industry.
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Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing Prince Georges County, Virginia Client: University of Virginia Foundation Size: 63,000 square feet (5,853 square meters) Completion Date: 2012 Awards: Best of Best, Global Best Projects Awards, Engineering News Record, 2013 Design Excellence Award, Institutional, AIA Northern Virginia, 2014
The CCAM initiative envisioned a non-profit institution, housed in a purpose-built facility, which would promote faster and more effective translation of laboratory discoveries into commercializable products and processes.
― WHAT IT IS
A new model for accelerating research breakthroughs into product development.
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The only collaboration of its kind in North America with member companies such as Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Canon.
↑ We worked closely with CCAM’s founding partners—the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and the RollsRoyce Corporation--in programming and eventually designing the new facility.
← In the world of high-tech industry, somewhere between basic discoveries in the laboratory and full-scale production of profitable and reliable products, lays a graveyard of promising ideas that lacked the right resources for successful translation into commercial reality.
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Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems (CCALS) Prince George County, Virginia Client: Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) Size: 56,400 square feet Completion Date: On-going Awards: Unbuilt Awards - Commissioned Project, AIA DC, 2017; Award of Merit, Unbuilt, AIA Northern Virginia, 2017
― WHAT IT IS
A non-profit research consortium dedicated to the development of transformational innovations in logistics systems that benefit both private and public sector applications.
― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
CCALS brings together industry, university, and government partners to collaborate on research in the various dimensions of logistics.
Lane Community College, Center for Learning and Student Success Eugene, Oregon Size: size 104,000 square feet 96,000 SF (Renovation) 8,000 SF (New) Completion Date: 2015 Sustainability: LEED Silver Ž ― WHAT IT IS
A learning commons that provides the resources that students need to achieve their educational goals.
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― WHAT MAKES IT COOL
The Renaissance Room features a glass wall to see into the kitchen and watch the Culinary Arts students train and learn while they cook.
Our Team
Safdar Abidi
Carl Knutson
Tyler Murph
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