CASE STUDY

Advanced Manufacturing Center

Bluegrass Community & Technical College

Danville, Kentucky

OWNER

Kentucky Community & Technical College System

AREA

13,780 GSF

CONSTRUCTION BUDGET

$3,500,000

STATUS

Completed Spring 2021

DESIGN DRIVER

Plant Floor Model

Rural site; Optimizing flexibility, adaptability, and expandability

Advanced Manufacturing Center

Bluegrass CTC - Danville, Kentucky Campus

Project Description

BCTC is an economic driver for Central Kentucky and supplies the state with the skilled workers needed to fill positions with existing companies and to attract new business. Kentucky is home to numerous manufacturing hubs and is in need of well-trained workers. Because of this, career and technical education is at its highest demand in decades thus the need for the new facility.

The national attention received by the KCTCS workforce training initiative can be largely attributed to the efficient design of the training facilities. The buildings are designed to address today’s manufacturing processes – lean thinking, just-in-time-delivery, pull systems, supply chain management, and new operational management techniques – and emulate the manufacturing plant typology by employing large, open high-bay spaces, polished concrete low-maintenance floors, exposed structures, and insulated metal panel exteriors.

As part of Kentucky Education Workforce & Development Cabinet’s Kentucky Work Ready Skills Initiative, Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) is constructing the new 13,500 SF Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) as an addition to the existing facility.

Programs to be offered in the new facility include Industrial Maintenance, Engineering and Electronics, Technician Training, Industrial Maintenance Technology, Welding Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Additionally, the building will be used to provide dual credit for area high school students, as well as specialized training in these areas to meet the short-term training needs of local businesses and industry, including training of incumbent workers.