Green Building Technology Access Centre

卡尔加里SAIT理工学院的绿色建筑技术接入中心（GBTAC）将提供 为私营部门合作伙伴和其他建筑产品提供应用研究和技术服务， 阿尔伯塔省南部和加拿大西部的服务业。该中心将以已建立的最高审计和调查小组为基础， 绿色建筑技术（GBT）方面的能力，包括专业知识、设施、行业参与，以及 自2008年SAIT启动GBT倡议以来，积累了大量的研究能力。 SAIT是GBT访问中心的理想位置。建筑业占近12% 阿尔伯塔省3067亿美元的国内生产总值中，建筑产品和服务业占 贡献了90亿美元的繁荣。这个行业的绝大多数公司都很小， 中小型企业（SME），员工少于50人。GBTAC将加强 区域创新体系，为中小企业获得杠杆融资提供便利，并为中小企业提供伙伴， 行业协会、政府和非政府组织，提供当地可获得的解决方案， 创新需求与不断增长的绿色建筑市场息息相关。合作伙伴将受益于重要的新 GBT实验室和示范中心的基础设施以及最先进的应用研究和 创新服务实验室位于新的740，000平方英尺的贸易和技术中心。

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.