Monsignor Fraser College

Monsignor Fraser College is part of an innovative multi-campus program that addresses high school students with special needs as well as mature students returning to complete a degree in a small-scale, flexible learning environment. At the campus in Scarborough, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) entered into a mutually beneficial agreement with Youth Challenge Fund’s Redemption Reintegration Services (RRS) to share the new facility. The building program is an atypical layout with a central study space surrounded by small classrooms that can function as after-hour seminar and meeting rooms. The design also incorporates a central, open kitchen/lounge area that helps to foster a sense of community. Although the College is essentially a new construction, its linkage to an existing TCDSB secondary school made it technically an addition, which simplified the process of meeting Ontario Building Code requirements. Final construction cost was within 2% of tendered construction cost.