Learning Resource Center | Tradeline, Inc.

The learning resource center (LRC) accommodates library, audio/visual, and radio/television functions. The LRC houses the latest in non-print services along with an 8,000-sf audio video/television studio making this one of the most technically advanced and largest facilities in the California Community College system. The building is designed with an unusual cylindrical opening in the breezeway ceiling, which is used as a sundial.

On the outside of the building there is a design of a Mayan glyph. The glyph, "House of Learning," by SWC art professor Mark Van Stone, symbolizes a structure sacred to Itzamna, the Mayan god of writing and books.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Southwestern Community College District

Owner Contact:

John Wilson, Director of Business Operations

Building Location:

Chula Vista, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Learning resource center accomodating library, audio/visual, and radio/TV functions.

Project Timeline

Dec 2002	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$12,000,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Atrium
Education
Education: Library
Library

Total GSF:

87,000

Structure/Foundation:

Steel frame

Project Team

Architect

LPA, Inc.

Profile Created 03/11/2002

Last Updated 04/04/2006

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.