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Ground Breaking: San Diego Miramar College’s Arts and Humanities Building and Business and Mathematics Building

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Arts and Humanities Building will consist of 45,000 square feet of new construction, including space for English, visual arts, music, speech and foreign language classrooms. The buildings will include new “smart” classrooms equipped with computers; audiovisual and multimedia equipment; a lecture hall; a recording studio; studio space for drawing, painting and ceramics; and related office space for faculty and staff.

The new Business and Mathematics Building will consist of approximately 45,000 square feet of new construction, including new “smart” classrooms; computer labs; a mathematics research center; and related office space for faculty and staff.

Both projects were named “Projects of Distinction” winners in the 2008 Education Design Showcase, honoring innovative yet practical solutions in planning, design and construction of higher education facilities.

In keeping with the San Diego Community College District’s green building policy, the project is designed to obtain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, and includes a number of sustainable features such as the extensive use of construction and design materials made with recycled content, and high-efficiency plumbing and electrical fixtures.

Project address: Miramar College is located at 10440 Black Mountain Road.

INTERESTING FACTS: The project includes a number of special features to increase its performance and energy efficiency. Sloped roofs provide north-facing clerestory windows (a band of narrow windows along the very top of a high wall, allowing light to filter into adjacent spaces) and south-facing photovoltaic panels.

The design includes efficient thermal “massing,” which delays the transfer of heat throughout the course of a day, and minimizes the impact of a heating or cooling load on a building. Heavy materials such as concrete, brick and stone can all be used to achieve thermal massing.

All windows utilize high-performance glass that allows sunlight to filter into the building, but reduces the amount of ultraviolet light and solar heat entering the building.

Recycled materials, high-efficiency lighting, plumbing and mechanical systems are used throughout the project.

Building Information Modeling, or BIM, allowed the design team to study building orientation and optimize efficiencies in “model space” before building in real space. Using BIM can help detect possible conflicts that could arise during building construction, and it can help improve the sequencing of construction activities.

DEVELOPER: NA.

FINANCING: Proposition N.

DESIGNER: NTD Architecture.

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Sundt Construction heading team with multiple contractors working on the project.

MAJOR SUBCONTRACTORS: Wiseman + Rohy Structural Engineers, structural engineer; Michael Wall Engineering Inc., electrical engineer; DCE Inc., mechanical engineer; Gafcon, Propositions S and N program manager.

START DATE: April 2009.

TARGETED COMPLETION DATE: December 2010.

CONSTRUCTION COST: $26.6 million.

PROJECT COST: $32.81 million.

SQUARE FOOTAGE: 90,000 square feet.

TENANTS SIGNED TO DATE: NA.

LEASING AGENT: NA.

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