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Thirty wireless stations for laptops and 42 computers are provided throughout the library. This allows both personal laptop computers and university-provided laptop use in the library. Among the other features are two information and integrated teaching and learning areas.

The multimedia room provides the University with statewide transmission capabilities for distribution of electronic book and video. It serves as a hub for coordination of real time and delayed videos, classes, lectures, and meetings.

The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) provides access to K-12 curriculum and testing material within a classroom environment. It is equipped with a document camera, video projector AMX touch panel instructor's station with a computer, VCR/DVD player, monitor, video camera, printer, and server capable of both network and local access. The room provides seating for 20 children with computer access.

Project Information

Building Owner:

National University

Owner Contact:

Kevin Casey, Vice President of Administration & Business

Building Location:

San Diego, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Academic library

Project Timeline

Jan 1999	Planning Start
Mar 1999	Design Start
Oct 1999	Construction Start
Aug 2000	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$11,300,000

Construction Cost:

$4,600,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$115

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Computers
Education
Education: Multimedia
Library

Total GSF:

40,000

Total NSF:

31,547

Efficiency:

79%

Building Population:

400

People Density:

100 gsf/person

Special Equip:

Automated compact stacks

Planning Module:

30' x 38'

Structure/Foundation:

Sog, tilt-up construction with steel atrium

Laboratory Parameters

Lab Module:

10' x 24'

Project Team

Architect

Delawie Wilkes Rodrigues Barker

Builder

Reno Contracting Inc.

Consultant - Electrical

ILA & Zammit Engineering

Consultant - Landscape Architect

WimmerYamada & Caughey

Consultant - Lighting

ILA & Zammit Engineering

Consultant - Mechanical

TKG Consulting Engineering Inc.

Consultant - Plumbing

TKG Consulting Engineering Inc.

Consultant - Structural Engineer

Hope Engineering Inc

Profile Created 03/31/2001

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

Main Library