Engineering Science Building

The building has a wide range of laboratory spaces. To facilitate access of heavy equipment, the fluid mechanics lab and the materials science lab are located at grade level and open directly onto the street. Wet labs for chemistry and physics are located on the second floor.

Second-floor labs are accessed through a secure corridor from a hillside entrance. Natural light for this space is provided through three roof monitors. A series of tilted roof panels over the second-floor labs and lobby facilitate air movement through the building. A second-floor multi-purpose flex lab is situated to take advantage of views across campus and down the Pacific coast.

Project Information

Building Owner:

California Maritime Academy

Owner Contact:

Thomas Coffin, Chief of Architecture and Engineering, CSU System

Building Location:

Vallejo, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Interdisciplinary Physics and Chemistry Laboratories

Project Delivery Method:

Bid

Project Timeline

Sep 1995	Planning Start
Oct 1995	Design Start
Sep 1997	Construction Start
Apr 1999	Target Completion
Last known status: Construction

Project Cost:

$4,300,000

Construction Cost:

$3,600,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$225

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Computers
Education: Classroom
Engineering
Laboratory: Teaching
Office

Total GSF:

16,000

Total NSF:

10,000

Efficiency:

63%

Building Population:

200

People Density:

80 gsf/person

Building Services:

Vacuum, Compressed Air

Special Equip:

150 mph wind tunnel

Office Size:

100 NSF

Power Req:

15.75 watts/nsf

Structure/Foundation:

Cast-in-place concrete shear walls/ Steel braced frames with concrete grade beams and soil nail tie-backs

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

10' x 10'

Casework Mat'l:

Wood with plastic laminate veneer and epoxy countertops

Fume Hoods:

4:6', 1:4'

Project Team

Architect

NBBJ

Consultant - MEP Engineer

Mazzetti and Associates

Consultant - Structural

Forell/Elsessor Engineering

Profile Created 04/01/1999

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.

Fig. 1

Floorplan

Fig. 2

Exterior