Green Building Technology Access Centre

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The Green Building Technologies Access Centre (GBTAC) at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary will provide applied research and technical services to private sector partners and others in the building products and services industry in southern Alberta and western Canada. This Centre will build on SAITs established capacity in green building technologies (GBT) including expertise, facilities, industry engagement, and research competence amassed since the GBT initiative was launched in 2008 at SAIT. SAIT is the ideal location for the GBT Access Centre. The construction sector accounts for nearly 12 per cent of Alberta's $306.7 billion gross domestic product, with the building product and services industry contributing $9 billion of this prosperity. The vast majority of companies in this industry are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with fewer than 50 employees. The GBTAC will strengthen the capacity of the regional innovation system by facilitating SME access to leveraged funding, and provide partner SMEs, industry associations, governments and non-governmental organizations with a local, accessible solution to innovation needs tied to the growing green building market. Partners will benefit from significant new infrastructure at the GBT Lab and Demonstration Centre and state-of-the-art Applied Research and Innovation Services labs in the new 740,000 sqft Trades and Technology Centre.