attention across North America. Built as a net-
zero footprint facility (which essentially means
it will make as much or more as the energy
used in its operation), the Joyce Centre will set
the standard for future buildings of its kind.
Buildings generate nearly 40 per cent of all
greenhouse gases, and the Joyce Centre could
be an important step in a significant reduction
of greenhouse gases overall.
The Joyce Centre is precedent-setting in other
ways, including as the single largest federal in-
frastructure funding in the college’s fifty years.
The Joyce Family Foundation also made histo-
ry with a $5-million investment in the college.
“Mohawk College is nearest and dearest,”
said Steven Joyce, trustee of The Joyce Fam-
ily Foundation and the son of Ron Joyce. “The
Hamilton-based Walters Group supplied the structural steel for the Joyce Centre.
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