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VOLUME 27 · ISSUE 15 · JANUARY 17, 2018
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Three major projects to be completed before 2020 Wade Tomko CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Ω Within the next two years, three major construction projects are slated to be completed on TRU’s campus. By the start of 2018’s fall semester, the Industrial Training and Technology Centre will be open for business. Though much work still needs to be done to the building, construction is more than 40 per cent complete as of last
month, according to Les Tabata, TRU’s director of capital projects. “We want to open for the fall semester, so we need to complete that building in July or August in order to have time to bring in furniture and have equipment tested and delivered,” Tabata said. Before the ITTC is even finished however, TRU will begin another major construction project on campus. Though the building is still in the development phase, the Nursing
and Population Health building is slated to start construction on April 1 of this year. TRU plans to have most of the construction on that building completed by the fall of 2019 so students can use the facility for winter 2020. “That project is not as advanced as the trades building, because we are of course still in the design portion,” Tabata said.
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The second- and first-year law students were dominating against third-year and alumni during the first period of their Saturday faceoff. (Juan Cabrejo/The Omega)