Rankin trades centre looks at building Nunavut’s future workforce – Nunatsiaq News
Centre to roll out heavy equipment operator training next
RANKIN INLET — “It’s a small building, but it’s very powerful,” says Sandy Napier as he pushes open a door leading into a lab at the Nunavut Arctic College’s trades training centre in Rankin Inlet.
Napier, the centre’s director of trades and technology, walks into one of the centre’s classrooms, where a dozen furnaces and water heaters sit in two neat rows, hooked up to a maze of pipes. The centre’s oil burner mechanics students installed all the copper piping during classes this past spring.
Down the hall, Napier opens a door into another lab, where the wood frame of a two-storey home has been built. In it, students have been able to do hands-on electrical writing and plumbing.
