Sheridan College will soon begin construction on a new building at our Davis Campus in Brampton. When open in late 2016/early 2017, this 130,000 square foot facility will be home to our trades and apprenticeship programs which are currently delivered in Oakville.
If you are at Davis Campus, you may have noticed blue fencing around the footprint of the new building. Shipping containers of materials will soon start to arrive. Heavy construction will begin early in the summer term to allow our April exams and term-end activities to take place without disruption.
The new building will create opportunities for collaboration, movement between credentials, and sharing of equipment and resources that benefit students in the trades and those enrolled in engineering related diplomas at Davis. The Davis campus is already home to the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies — a 28,000 square foot facility that features top-in-Canada machinery for 3D printing, CNC machining and robotics.
To facilitate interaction, the new building will be connected by a bridge to the building that houses our advanced manufacturing labs. It will feature 22 flexible classrooms, a learning commons, and dedicated workshops (each 20% larger than those currently at STC) for plumbing, electrician, machining, millwright, welding and construction skills.
Creating the building also allows Sheridan to introduce a new Energy Centre that will bring district heating and cooling networks to Davis to generate electricity and more efficiently cool and heat much of the campus. It will be designed as a living lab that features glass walls, screens in the main lobby displaying energy use metrics, and a classroom that overlooks the central plant.
The new building will be home to approximately 1,700 students who are enrolled in Sheridan’s trades and apprenticeship programs annually. By moving these programs to Davis, we will provide students with access to a full suite of support and advising services, library facilities, athletics facilities and activities, food services and the option for on-campus living – currently not available at STC.
As a result of the new building, we will eliminate the portables now being used at Davis. With the addition of classroom space in the new building, some of the 3rd floor classrooms found in J wing will be repurposed to become part of an expanded Learning Commons for the benefit of all students.
Once the new building is complete, programs that run at STC in Oakville will move to Davis Campus and our existing STC building will close. The Town of Oakville plans to change the layout of its roads and highway on and off ramps. Traffic will eventually drive where our current STC building is located.
In the fall of 2016, the new building at our Hazel McCallion Campus in Mississauga will also open. It will make space for 5,600 additional students and for related programs to be housed together. This, in turn, will advance opportunities for collaboration among disciplines and will also help to alleviate enrolment pressures at our other campuses.
Please stay tuned over the weeks and months ahead for updates about the building, which we’ll share as they become available.
A rendering of the expansion at Davis Campus