Aims tops off new Windsor academic building

WINDSOR — Aims Community College topped off its expansion of its Windsor campus with a beam signing ceremony last week followed by lifting of the beam into position on the new academic building.

The project is budgeted to cost $18 million. When completed, it will add classroom space and a simulated city to the Public Safety Institute training yard. The building will be three stories and 38,000 square feet.

The training yard will be made available to public safety students and professionals. The yard will include two houses, a commercial building, streets, intersections and a search-and-rescue building to practice navigating in narrow…