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The building is scheduled to finish by May 2007 and will benefit the allied health field as well as the technology field for future students.
Southern president Joanne Tomblin said everything is on schedule and the expansion of programs at SWVCTC will benefit all of the southern West Virginia area.
"It is on schedule and is scheduled to be completed by May 2007," Tomblin said. "The more we can expand or the more we can create new programs that we don't have is only going to benefit help for the people of southern West Virginia."
Recently, the construction crew has been working on laying the brick on the outside of the building and has placed a cocoon-like structure over the building to work on the interior during the cold winter months.
"They are working on laying some bricks on the outside," Tomblin said. "They are going to work on the interior during the winter months."
Tomblin said allied health programs across the state and across the world could benefit from the expansion. As of now, there is a shortage of allied health professionals.
"We know there is a critical shortage of allied health professionals not only in West Virginia, but across the world," Tomblin said. "We know they can get jobs and we know we have a quality program and having a new facility provides that opportunity."
The building is not just for allied health courses, but will also be used for other programs.
"It is not going to be for allied health, but it is going to be for the technology area," Tomblin said. "We are adding computers and adding to the engineer so that we will have a state of the are learning classroom that we can teach."
Most of the allied health courses are career technical programs. Tomblin said when people think of SWVCTC, most of the time they think of nursing.
"We have several allied health programs here," Tomblin said. "I know most people think of us as a nursing program, but we also have many wonderful allied health programs."
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