Capital Campaign

  • The Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign was launched in 2015. With a target of $45 million, this is the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the history of The Lambton College Foundation. We never had any doubt our community would step up to the plate to transform the way Lambton College students live and learn.


    Target of $45 million

  • The Purpose


  • The Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign was established to enhance academic programming, student athletic and recreation opportunities, and applied research activities. It was launched as an initiative aimed to further position Lambton College as a leader in educational programming and student life, one with expanded capacity for corporate training.

    Together, we have turned renderings into buildings and a vision into reality.

    The campaign has drawn strong support from community partners and donors. Together, we have turned renderings into buildings and a vision into reality. The campaign is ongoing, and so too is the transformation of Lambton College.


  • The Results



  • The Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign has so far resulted in two new buildings: the extraordinary NOVA Chemicals Health & Research Centre, and the Athletics & Fitness Complex, the leading athletics facility in the Ontario college system. This campaign has also enabled tremendous upgrades and a significant addition of training space to the Centre of Excellence in Energy and Bio Industrial Technologies.

    Labs are being renovated and classrooms are turning into active learning environments. Parking and driving on campus has been made safer, landscaping has been improved, and the College’s connection to the community has been strengthened through accessible trails. These are just some of the accomplishments of the Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign.

  • All told, the Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign is creating a Lambton College better positioned to attract new students to the area, and retain our highly skilled graduates for our local workforce.

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    Centre of Excellence in Energy & Bio-Industrial Technologies

    The 34,000 sq. ft. Centre of Excellence in Energy & Bio-Industrial Technologies received a $14.2 million upgrade, including the addition of 7,000 sq.ft. of training space as a result of the Envision Tomorrow Capital & Equipment Renewal Campaign. It is a facility replete with state of practice laboratories that support hands-on education in the next generation technologies vital to our region. It positions Lambton College and our students at the forefront of the bio-industrial, energy and emerging technology sectors.

    Industry in Sarnia-Lambton area innovates and accelerates rapidly and in order to stay on the leading edge of technologies, Lambton College is in constant collaboration with area employers and our corporate partners to ensure our education and training is meeting changing needs. The result is the Centre of Excellence propelled by agile labs and facilities that produce highly skilled graduates ready to make an impact in this region of innovation from day one.

    With the help of our donors, we have built a Centre of Excellence in Energy & Bio-Industrial Technologies worthy of the work being done in it by our students and community partners, and that is the highest compliment that can be paid to this impressive building.

    Facility Highlights:

    • 37 labs and research facilities
    • Bio-Industrial Process Research Centre
    • Lambton Energy Research Centre
    • Lambton Water Centre
    • Centre of Industrial Material Development
    • Process Flow and Controls lab
    • Three water treatment pilot-scale plants
    • Steam Boiler lab
    • Distillation Column lab
    • Alternative Energy lab


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