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HISTORY
MacEwan University is an acclaimed learning and teaching university in Edmonton. Established in 1971 and formerly a community college, the University’s main campus is located in the city’s downtown core and is home to over 19 000 students and staff. While the campus is in a prime location for accessibility and connectivity, expanding the heavily-trafficked site with its compressed infrastructure posed an interesting challenge. The University desired to grow its healthcare learning department and to accommodate more students, learning spaces, and innovative technologies to better deliver the high-quality educational experiences for which the school is renowned.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING AND BRIDGING
For Robbins Health Learning Centre, our team provided the Functional Programming Report and Bridging documents to support the design-build procurement for the new building. Through our hallmark integrated planning workshops, through research, site visits to related facilities such as the School of Nursing at the University of Texas and UBC’s Life Sciences Centre, we developed an optimal space programming for a contemporary approach to nursing education, creating labs with simulation manequins, and anticipating the need to support distance learning by over a decade. This facility allowed MacEwan to provide Nursing Degrees and is now home to hundreds of students in Nursing, Acupuncture, Holistic Health and Therapy Assistant programs.
