Students at the NSCC Strait Area Campus are back for the first day of classes in the 2019-20 academic year, but they’re going to have to be a careful navigating campus.
Principal Tom Gunn says construction of their new residence is in full swing.
Gunn tells The Hawk it connects students to Port Hawkesbury, along with the new multi-use trail.
“I think it’s all part of one effort to really make the campus and the town quite well-connected,” he says. “I think the big, exciting thing is that the college and the province are investing in the Strait Area Campus, and it’s a major investment.”
Gunn says funding for the building shows confidence by officials with the provincial government.
He says it opens up their programs to a wider array of students.
“We expect a lot of students who are further away will find it easier to (come here) now.”
Gunn says excavation and work for water and wastewater connections got underway in August.
He says structural steel should go up in the fall, with the building closed in by winter.
Gunn says they hope to be finished construction by the fall of 2020, but they haven’t nailed down a firm timeline just yet.