Vision - San Bernardino Valley College is setting out to create a high-performance Technical Education Facility to launch its net-zero energy pilot program. Envisioned as a circuit of sorts, cultivating a highly connected “State-of-the-Art Educational Facility”, “Enriching Student Experience”, “Demonstrating Leadership in High Performance Design”, fostering “Partnership with Industry”, and “Enhancing Community Relationships”.
Program & Project Data - The 103,000 GSF building houses a robust automotive and electric vehicle, electronics, electricity, machining, HVAC&R, water, and emerging technologies program. Spaces include technical and computer labs, lecture, gathering and support spaces, and is home to the division offices. The $70.8M construction project anticipates completion in the summer of 2023.
Design - Once contained in a windowless block building with little clue as to its function, the new facility is in every sense the inverse, focused on visual, spatial, and educational connectivity, reflecting its significance to both campus and community. Highly transparent entry and exhibit spaces, a multi-functional lobby, visually connected circulation, lab, and collaborative sticky spaces throughout provide numerous opportunities to showcase program work and demonstrate the projects numerous sustainability strategies.
The building envelope is envisioned as a skin, likened to an automobile body, taking its form in response to function, environment, circulation, views, education, and user experience. The dynamic and industrial architectural and material language of metal paneling, daylight walls systems, shade components, and perforated panels result in an expression that while driven by function and sustainability, is contextual and familiar within the campus context.
At the edge of the central academic neighborhood, the projects south and west edges focus on the pedestrian experience. Comfortable landscaped areas flow into an existing bio-garden, while the building entry plaza supports a variety of campus and industry events. Along the north and east edges of the site, the utilitarian nature of the automotive yard is well suited with neighboring welding and future aeronautics programs.
High Performance/Sustainability - The design is envisioned to serve as a Living Lab, maximizing efficiency and environmental stewardship in a demonstrative way. The building management system will communicate energy, water and carbon emissions data directly to an interactive display in the lobby allowing building users to understand the variety of sustainability attributes. Data gathered will be shared with industry partners and used by the campus to study the impact and effectiveness of the strategies. Select strategies noted below support net zero ready energy and LEED Gold targets, result in anticipated 30% below Title 24, and low EUI of 24 kBTU/sf/year, providing an expected $25,000 annual utility savings
• High performance envelope & solar response façade.
• Solar chimneys combined with natural ventilation
• Phase change materials (PCM)
• Air Handling Units equipped with condensate recovery & underground water storage
• All Electric mechanical design
• Solar Glazing
• High velocity, low speed fans
• DC power and battery storage demonstration
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