An upcoming technical education center for adults in Lawrence has been denied a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, forcing a new approach to its fundraising efforts.

Still shooting for an August 2015 opening, development officials said Wednesday the denied grant may result in an abbreviated roster of available programs when the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Education Center debuts.

“I’d sum up by saying that we see this as a speed bump rather than a roadblock,” Hugh Carter, the Lawrence chamber of commerce’s vice president of external affairs, said.

Several government, education and economic institutions partnered to establish the Peaslee Center, which will offer adults job training in health care, information technology, engineering and other technical fields.

Development officials previously said that failure to receive the $10 million grant may postpone the opening date. However, Carter said Wednesday that instead, programs like welding, which require expensive equipment, might not be immediately available.

“Those will take a little longer to develop now, just because we have to identify funding sources,” Carter said.

Fundraising efforts will continue to focus on grant opportunities from public and private entities, according to Jim Genandt, the vice president for student learning at Neosho County Community College, which headed the application process for the $10 million grant.

The Peaslee Center is already pegged to receive approximately $200,000 from the Lawrence and Douglas County governments. Carter said he does not expect to ask either for more.

“Probably what we’re looking at is several avenues to get pieces of funding so it all comes to together to support the project, rather than one major funder,” Genandt said.

The grant in question is part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training program, aimed at providing institutions of higher education a means of expanding services. The program ensures that an institution from every state, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, receive funding, according to the Department of Labor.

“It’s a very competitive process; the odds were against us,” Genandt said.

The Peaslee Center is planned to operate out of the former Honeywell Industries building at 31st Street and Haskell Avenue. City and county governments, along with a consortium of community colleges, the Lawrence chamber of commerce and the Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence and Douglas County are partnering to turn the facility into the education center.

Next door, on Thursday, the Lawrence school district will also begin groundbreaking on its own College and Career Center, creating a “technical training campus,” Carter said. The EDC donated $750,000 worth of land to the school district to build the facility.