Advanced Skills Centre

Alberta’s workforce is currently facing a shortage of skilled trades workers, making life more expensive for families and leaving job openings unfilled. To meet the demands of a growing economy and create opportunities for students in high-demand fields, Alberta’s government has invested in the new ASC at NAIT.

The ASC will deliver the most comprehensive, leading-edge apprenticeship and technology-based education in the world, focused on training in four key sectors: Construction, Transportation, Manufacturing and Energy.

Inside the Advanced Skills Centre

The Advanced Skills Centre will be home to a modern, transformative, diverse, and inclusive skills and technology-based training experience that will shape a resilient, innovative, and future-ready workforce. The Advanced Skills Centre will contain the following:

• up to an estimated 640,000 square feet of new space on Main Campus
  • the future site of the ASC is located on the former Edmonton Bus Barns property at the north end of Main Campus
• capacity expansion to train 4,200 more apprentices (*based on 2023/24 apprenticeship numbers and using conventional delivery methods)

• flexibility at its core to ensure programs are scalable to meet changes in labour market demand, and the delivery of new programs across the key sectors of construction, transportation, energy, and advanced manufacturing  

• labs and training spaces better able to support an interdisciplinary approach to learning and training 

• the ability to support year-round trades exploration activities that engage youth, women, and newcomers as well as learners from both Indigenous and diverse communities  

• LEED silver certification

Suppliers' information

NAIT’s core values are a central component of our culture. They are a guiding light for both staff and students, defining how we interact with each other and what we expect from each other.

Our commitment to fostering strong partnerships with our suppliers is essential to our mission of providing quality education and services to our students and community. We believe that collaboration and integrity are key to achieving mutual success.

We expect those who are engaged with NAIT on critical projects like the Advanced Skills Centre will reflect our core values in their day-to-day dealings with our staff, contractors and vendors.

• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Accountability
• Celebration
• Respect

NAIT's Vision, Promises and Values

Doing business with NAIT

NAIT’s procurement process is designed to be fair, open, transparent, and non-discriminatory.  We promote equal opportunities by complying with all relevant trade agreements and legislation established for our municipalities, academic institutions, the schools and hospitals (MASH) sector. Public procurement tenders are conducted for purchases above these thresholds under the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA):

• $75,000 for goods
• $75,000 for services
• $200,000 for construction

Competitive public procurement

Our procurement mission is to secure the best overall value for NAIT by ensuring optimal quality, timing, value and service while minimizing risk, and adhering to ethical conduct standards to maintain public confidence in NAIT.

To achieve this, NAIT’s procurements must be conducted with integrity, trust and impartiality. There must be no conflict, or the appearance of conflict between the private interests of board members and employees and their duty to the public. To ensure compliance with public sector procurement standards and trade agreements, all purchases above $75,000 for goods and services and $200,000 for construction are publicly tendered through a competitive bid process.