(L-R): Cori Steele, student and CIM-TAC Animation Creator; the Honorable Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Health; Stuart Cullum, President, RDP; Guy Pelletier, Chair, RDP Board of Governors; Jason Stephan, MLA for Red Deer-South, and Akshun Chauhan, CIM-TAC Research Technician and student.

By Josh Hall | @Vancan19

$21 million project

RDP puts shovels in the ground on CIM-TAC expansion

May 9, 2025 | 2:40 PM

Red Deer Polytechnic has officially broken ground on the expansion of its Centre for Innovation in Manufacturing-Technology Access Centre (CIM-TAC).

To be completed by fall 2026, this will increase the centre’s size from 15,000 to 25,000 square feet. The expansion project was announced May 10, 2024.

The CIM-TAC serves as an innovation ecosystem, offering companies access to cutting-edge prototyping and manufacturing capacity, along with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, staff and students who help transform innovative concepts into market-ready products.

“This is an exciting day for Red Deer Polytechnic,” says Stuart Cullum, President of RDP. “The expansion of the CIM-TAC is pivotal to increasing productivity and economic growth in our region by providing more capacity for applied research, as well as education, training and work-integrated learning opportunities for our students.”

Once complete, it will offer experiences to 450 post-secondary students annually, with more than 500 grade school students also benefitting from dual-credit programming each year.

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The CIM-TAC allows RDP to support a broad range of sectors — including energy innovation, transportation, aviation and agriculture – through advanced manufacturing solutions.

Expansion is being supported by the Government of Alberta to the tune of $12.9 million, with $4.8 million in capital and equipment funding from the Government of Canada, and $3.5 million from RDP’s own reserves.

Learn more here.

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