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A Web page has been launched, featuring photos of construction at the Centre for Health and Wellness at the Barrie Campus, as well as construction of the new Collingwood Campus. This site contains photos of everything from the setting of beams last at the Centre for Health and Wellness last spring, to work on the building envelope this [...]
The view outside the window of the Barrie Campus, facing Highway 400, has changed considerably in recent weeks. As the exterior of the new Centre for Health and Wellness wraps the building, the highway has virtually disappeared from sight. “Once the walls are all up, staff members looking out the windows are going to get [...]
For the curious, here are a few “fast facts” about the building: 410 door knobs 468 primary roof/floor beams Average beam weight = 637 pounds Heaviest beam weight = 9,370 pounds Beams manufactured in Barrie Volume of concrete = 50,000 cubic feet Weight of building (including foundations) = 16,000,000 pounds (+/- 100) 172,000-square-foot building 56 [...]
CIBC, the Canadian bank which prides itself on standing for what matters, declared that education and quality health care in the Central Ontario community matters to them with a $100,000 donation to Georgian College for School of Health and Wellness student awards and scholarships on Sept. 11. The timing of the donation for awards and scholarships [...]
Staff and students coming back from holidays will notice incredible progress has taken place on the Georgian College Centre for Health and Wellness at the Barrie Campus over the summer months. Bondfield Construction, winner of both the first- and second-phase construction bids, has been moving ahead on time and on budget, reports Heather Steeves, Manager [...]
Simcoe County Warden Cal Patterson received a “hands-on” experience at Georgian College on March 18. Those hands belonged to Charity-Lynn Caudle, a third-year student in the registered Massage Therapy program, who used her skills to loosen the tension in Patterson’s neck and back. “That was very relaxing,” said Patterson, adding it was “interesting to see [...]
Georgian College’s Barrie Campus will be the site of a new nurse practitioner-led clinic. Premier Dalton McGuinty (pictured) made the announcement during a visit to the College in November 2009. The clinic will become an important part of the Georgian College Centre for Health and Wellness which is slated to open in 2011. It is [...]
Georgian President and CEO Brian Tamblyn, Barrie MP Patrick Brown and Aileen Carroll, MPP for Barrie, along with hundreds of staff, students, corporate donors and community supporters, today celebrated the groundbreaking for Phase 1 of the College’s new Centre for Health and Wellness.
Brian Tamblyn, President and CEO, Georgian College, staff, students, corporate donors and community supporters, along with representatives from the federal and provincial governments, the County of Simcoe and the City of Barrie, celebrated the new Centre for Health and Wellness with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Barrie Campus on Oct. 23, 2009.
