Manitoba Success Stories
Manitoba communities have 22 new Child Care Facilities completed within budget and in record time.
These sites will provide over 1700 Child Care spaces for Manitoba families. All the licensed Facilities have qualified non-profit operators.
In April 2024, The Province of Manitoba – Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC), was recognized for the “Daycare-in-a-Box” project by Project Management Institute Manitoba as the 2024 PMI Project of the Year. The PMI Project of the Year award is the highest recognition in the Province of Manitoba for excellence and superior performance in Project Management granted by PMI Manitoba.
In 2021, the Government of Canada set out a goal to provide affordable $10-a-day regulated Child Care spaces within 5-years. On August 9th, 2021, the Province of Manitoba was signatory to a $1.2 billion agreement. With this, the Province committed to creating 23,000 new full-time regulated Child Care spaces by March 2026.
How this came to be
In 2022, JQ Built partnered with Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) to develop a process and project management system that could deliver new Child Care infrastructure across the province.
All locations were determined by the ELCC and based on ELCC data.
Best practice in every way
Building a daycare facility requires extensive planning and administrative, safety, legal and financial oversight. By working with ELCC experts, municipal planners, architects, builders and partners like Efficiency Manitoba on the plan for one outstanding facility, and replicating that success, these state-of-the-art child care facilities have been built on time and on budget (in some cases, early and under budget).
The new facilities are all licensed, non-profit childcare facilities, meet public health and Fire and Safety regulations, and exceed the Manitoba Energy Code for Buildings by 27%. As a result of this energy efficiency, participating municipalities received a rebate from Efficiency Manitoba of between $12,000 and $18,000.
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