Advanced Skills Centre | ?m | 4s | NAIT

[thommyjo]

I honestly don’t understand this route. The arena/Macewan connection is average (I believe the rink stuff came after plans were in place for the train?)

But the Royal Alex/kingsway station is a real hike…the nait one isn’t convenient…nor does it serve blatchford well… (and yes, I know more of blatchford will be built close, but it’s still a long walk for the majority of blatchford once it’s all built out…)

Like I just don’t get this. Do the planners not get that adding a 10-15min walk to a trip can be the difference maker to using transit or not? And especially if that’s outside walking vs integrated stations.

 

[IanO]

Budget 2024 - $43 million planning funding for the trades and technology learning facility at NAIT

 

[MacLac]

Budget 2024 - $43 million planning funding for the trades and technology learning facility at NAIT

$43M in "planning" ONLY. Absolutely no construction expenses are related to this

 

[channing76]

$43M in "planning" ONLY. Absolutely no construction expenses are related to this

Thats a good size of planning money though. NAIT is important to the province.

 

[IanO]

$43mil seems like an awful lot for 'planning' purposes though given that design fees are usually ~10% of total project costs.

https://raic.org/sites/raic.org/files/nov2020_2019_fee_guide_en_web_4.pdf

 

[archited]

Standard Architectural fees recede from about 10% for smaller projects to as little as 5% on larger projects suggesting that this project could be in the upper hundreds of millions of dollars approaching a billion dollars. I do know that it is an extremely large undertaking for NAIT with a strong emphasis on construction-materials-and-building-systems research.

 

[IanO]

Campus Development Plan

Campus Development Plan

www.nait.ca

 

[Airboy]

Standard Architectural fees recede from about 10% for smaller projects to as little as 5% on larger projects suggesting that this project could be in the upper hundreds of millions of dollars approaching a billion dollars. I do know that it is an extremely large undertaking for NAIT with a strong emphasis on construction-materials-and-building-systems research.

When I was on the consulting side last year our fees were down around 2%.

 

[MacLac]

When I was on the consulting side last year our fees were down around 2%.

Great! So if 2% = $43M. Then one can extrapolate the data and surmise that 98% = $2.1 Billion!

 

[MacLac]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nait-plans-expansion-for-more-trades-apprentice-training-as-registrations-jump-1.7216044

 

[MacLac]

Sounds like they very desparate to get this thing going asap!

Planning underway for new trades and technology facility, NAIT’s largest-ever project

Polytechnic to grow educational capacity with addition of 640,000-square-foot building

techlifetoday.nait.ca

 

[MacLac]

Looks like SAIT is getting a new building too…..

 

[Edmcowboy11]

So how close/far would this be to the other LRT station?

 

[MacLac]

Investing in the future of apprenticeships at NAIT

Alberta’s government is investing $43 million to plan the Advanced Skills Centre at NAIT, training an additional 4,200 apprentices yearly.

www.alberta.ca

“……..which will start in 2025.” “……640,000 square feet!” That’s huge…..how much will this cost? I’m thinking $275M….?

 

[chrisvazquez7]

So how close/far would this be to the other LRT station?

It’s on 118 Ave, so still closer to the NAIT/Blatchford Market station.