Lake Michigan College is celebrating the completion of renovations to its welding lab in the Hanson Technology Center.

The college held an open house Friday to show off the $1.8 million in work that’s been done to rebuild the facility. LMC Dean of Workforce Development David Krueger tells us a huge part of the work was the replacement of the lab’s ventilation system.

“ Back when they first created a lot of welding labs, the ventilation that they used wasn’t as good,” Kreuger said. “ It didn’t draw out all the particulates out of the air. So this is one of the things, brand new booths that actually have individual systems that take air out.”

With those new booths, a lot of space has been s

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