Construction on the expansion of Bucks County Community College’s Bristol Township campus is well underway.
Crews were at work this week building the new Center for Advanced Technologies at the the Gene and Marlene Epstein Campus at Lower Bucks along Veterans Highway (Route 413).
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The $9.9 million, 28,000-square-foot building is designed to offer programs aimed at expanding workforce training and skilled jobs education near I-95 and a number of manufacturers around Lower Bucks County, officials have said.
The new structure will contain classrooms and labs for computer-aided design, project management, and lean manufacturing. The plans call for adding 100 parking spaces to the site.
The new facility will be connected to the existing campus building by a pedestrian bridge.
Credit: DIGSAU
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Former community college President Dr. Stephanie Shanblatt told Bristol Township Council in 2020 that the Center for Advanced Technologies is vitally needed in the county.
“The need for such training continues to grow, as manufacturing is among the top three industries in Bucks County, with local manufacturers employing more than 28,000 people, or 14 percent of the workforce. The projected skills gap equates to more than 3,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs in Bucks County by 2025, and 2 million nationwide,” the community college said in a statement earlier this year.
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Construction began earlier this year.
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