This 87,000-sq.-ft. three-story steel-frame learning resource center is the largest in the community college district.
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.
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Southwestern Community College District |
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Owner Contact:
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John Wilson, Director of Business Operations
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Building Location:
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Chula Vista, CA UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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New Construction
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Principal Building Function:
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Learning resource center accomodating library, audio/visual, and radio/TV functions. |
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Project Timeline
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| Dec 2002 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Project Cost: |
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$12,000,000 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Atrium
Education
Education: Library
Library
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| Total GSF: |
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87,000 |
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Structure/Foundation:
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Steel frame
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| Profile Created 03/11/2002 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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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.
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