Greeley Campus

Aims Workforce Innovation Center (AWIC)

Aims Workforce Innovation Center – Greeley Campus

Opening January 2027

The Aims Workforce Innovation Center (AWIC) is a state-of-the-art hub for talent, technology, and economic opportunity — right in the heart of Weld County. Located on the northeast end of the Aims Greeley Campus, the AWIC is designed to fuel innovation, connect industry with education, and inspire the next generation of thinkers and doers.

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The AWIC’s design encourages collaboration between learners and businesses in shared spaces, creating an environment where education and industry connect seamlessly. With 49,500 square feet of adaptable space, high data capacity, and innovative building materials, AWIC is built to grow with our community's needs and the technologies of tomorrow.

Key features of the AWIC include:

Experiential Learning Laboratories

The facility provides multiple spaces for Aims students, employees, and the broader community to experience and learn on cutting-edge technology, including virtual and augmented reality.

Emerging Technology Exhibits

These interactive exhibits offer firsthand exposure to cutting-edge tools and industrial evolutions. Visitors engage directly with new forms of interaction — from conversational AI and real-time data systems to advanced robotics, demystifying emerging technologies and highlighting their practical, real-world impacts on regional jobs.

Innovation Spaces

Part of the AWIC will serve as Weld County's first innovation hub — a dynamic space where businesses can access high-tech work bays to bring bold ideas to life. This will be a catalyst for regional economic development, giving entrepreneurs and industry leaders the space and tools to thrive.

If you have any questions or are interested in collaborating with Aims at the AWIC, email AWIC@aims.edu.

A rendering of a modern, multi-level building featuring sloped, overlapping rooflines and large glass facades. An accessibility ramp with a metal railing runs along the side, bordered by tall native grasses, shrubs, and autumn trees.

This architectural profile highlights the facility's innovative construction, which marks the first Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) project for both Aims Community College and Weld County. The physical design embodies the center's mission to connect education, business, and innovation.

An exterior rendering of a wide, modern structure featuring a large overhanging flat roof supported by dark vertical pillars. The building has extensive floor-to-ceiling windows, an outdoor deck with people, and landscaping featuring a rock wall and tall grasses.

The west-facing exterior features expansive glass that maximizes natural light. The architecture is purposefully designed to create a dynamic, evolving environment that reflects a rapidly changing world.

A rendering of three large, connected industrial-style bays with sloped wooden roofs, textured gray walls, and multiple large glass garage doors. A white van is parked outside, and a field of tall, dry native grass is in the foreground.

The exterior access to the work bays allows for the seamless movement of large-scale equipment and industry projects. These bays are highly flexible and can be altered, combined, or segmented with dividers to meet the specific, changing needs of various industry tenants.

Functioning as the central nervous system of the AWIC, the expansive lobby is designed to maximize exposure to the center's core activities. Visitors can engage with digital exhibit kiosks and interactive data visualizations right from the moment they walk in.

An interior rendering of a brightly lit conference room. It features a long rectangular meeting table surrounded by black office chairs, a wood-slat ceiling, and large windows that let in abundant natural light.

This professional boardroom provides a dedicated space for Aims leadership and regional industry partners to co-develop training, test new ideas, and shape workforce solutions together.

An interior rendering of an executive office suite. The space includes a modern reception desk, a waiting area with a sofa and armchairs, a wood-slat ceiling, and several glass-walled private offices visible in the background.

The AWIC features flexible touchdown spaces and open work areas, including cubicles and office space. These collaborative environments are designed to support startup companies and incubator tenants as they research, develop, and grow.

An interior rendering from an elevated mezzanine walkway looking down into a lower-level gathering space. People are standing at high-top tables below. A prominent architectural wall clad in multi-colored rectangular panels anchors the space, and large windows show a colorful sunset outside.

The mezzanine provides an elevated view of the lower-level activity, fostering a culture of innovation by creating visual connections and opportunities for serendipitous cross-pollination between different disciplines.

An interior rendering of a presentation room with solid rust-colored walls and a unique, wavy acoustic ceiling structure. Several round high-top tables with orange stools are scattered throughout, and people are looking toward a large digital display screen on the right wall.

This area is designed for presentations, entrepreneurial pitches, and community foresight activities. Visitors traversing the building will naturally pass by this stage, maximizing exposure to the latest ideas and future-oriented discussions.

An interior rendering of a vast, high-ceilinged industrial workspace. The room features smooth concrete floors, massive glass garage doors lining the left wall, a metal staircase on the right leading up to a mezzanine, and a light wood ceiling supported by tall, dark steel columns.

These expansive, adaptable workbays provide critical infrastructure for physical prototyping and technical training. Workbay 03, for example, is designed to allow the community to safely observe cutting-edge technology in action on a daily basis.

An overhead satellite map view with a 3D architectural block model of the Aims Workforce Innovation Center superimposed in the center, showing the building's footprint and rooflines surrounded by campus roads, a pond, and green spaces.

This overhead site plan outlines the footprint of the new Aims Workforce Innovation Center (AWIC), a $25.5 million, 49,500-square-foot hub for talent, technology, and economic opportunity located on the Aims Greeley Campus. The site integrates sustainable features, including 56 geothermal bore holes that power the campus's first centralized ground source heat pump.