Trades Shops

The Len Evans Centre for Trades and Technology is a 130,000-square-foot learning facility for Assiniboine students enrolled in trades and apprenticeship programs.

The $46 million facility opened in September 2010 and merges the site's original Pine Ridge brick building with a new steel structure. It infuses learning spaces with natural light and features innovative machine shops and modern, smart classrooms in a historically rich setting.

Plumbing Mezzanine

Piping Trades students from the pre-employment program use the 700-square-foot, two storey piping mezzanine to apply theoretical learning to real-life building scenarios. The mezzanine allows our students to learn about plumbing, gas, steam, pipe fitting, furnaces, air conditioning, air exchange and fire sprinkler systems.

Electrical Shop

Students get to work in a modern shop with a variety of hands-on experiences, including electrical bays and mock housing structures.

Welding Shop

Our welding shop allows students to work with oxyacetylene, learn shielded metal arc welding (SMAW-Arc), gas metal arc welding (GMAW-Mig), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW-Tig) and plasma cutting.

Automotive Shop

An dedicated automotive shop gives students enrolled in our nine-month pre-employment Automotive Technician program access to everything you'd expect to find in a real-world business. Students learn to repair and service cars and light duty trucks, and practice vehicle and customer service.

Heavy Equipment Shop

The heavy equipment shops allow students from our nine-month Heavy Equipment Technician certificate program to get hands-on training needed to service agricultural, heavy equipment and transport trucks. Walking through the shop you'll see students working on diesel engines, power trains, and electrical or mechanical systems.

Carpentry & Woodworking Shops

Carpentry and Woodworking students work in several shops, the largest of which enables large-scale builds and framing projects. In the past, Assiniboine students have worked with Habitat for Humanity to build RTM (ready to move homes).

Additional carpentry learning spaces allow for students to learn about framing, stair building, blueprint reading, interior and exterior finishing, mudding, and concrete theory. These shops allow our students to progress from using basic hand tools to advanced machine woodworking techniques.