LAVC STARTS BOND-FUNDED BUILDING.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff Writer VALLEY GLEN - Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was broke ground Tuesday on its first Proposition A/AA bond-funded building, as district officials announced progress in streamlining the $2.2 billion construction program. The $6.6 million maintenance and operations building/sheriff's station is the first in the nine-college Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. to incorporate environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] design standards Design standards Specifications of materials, physical measurements, processes, performance of products, and characteristics of services rendered. Design standards may be established by individual manufacturers, trade associations, and national or , including solar panels that will generate about 10 percent of the building's electricity needs. The construction also signals the start of transforming the college's master plan into reality, college President Tyree Wieder said. The building will free up land at the south end of the campus for the $31 million, three- story Allied Health building, set to begin construction in 2006. ``And then the dominoes will begin to fall, and we'll be doing nothing but construction,'' Wieder said. Soaring construction costs inflated the maintenance building's $7.3 million budget by a few hundred thousand dollars, but competitive bids brought the total cost down to $6.6 million, project director Mitch Vaccari said. The 28,000-square-foot building is the district's first LEED-certified building. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. , a set of environmentally friendly building guidelines developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Energy-efficient features include: skylights and solar panels to save electricity; high-performance glass and heat-reflecting concrete paving to keep the building cool; drought-tolerant landscaping; and low-flow plumbing fixtures. The building is expected to be completed next spring. The LACCD's handling of the Prop A/AA construction program was criticized last month in a special report by Chicago consultant Duane Hickling, who found that months-long delays caused by too many layers of bureaucratic review were costing the district millions. District officials have set a May 27 deadline to implement Hickling's suggested changes, and said Tuesday that they were making progress. In addition to giving more responsibility to the individual college project managers, the district is in the process of implementing a new electronic management system to better track budgets, costs and contracts, said Fred Gans, project manager for the district. But unlike the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and California State University systems California State University System, coordinating agency established in 1960 by the merger of individual California state colleges, now consisting of 23 campuses. , the community college district must submit its architectural plans to the Division of State Architect for review, a process that can add up to a year to the design phase. The maintenance building, for example, took eight months for DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. approval. To speed things up, district officials are meeting directly with the state architect and college project managers are making sure the architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. packages are complete before submission to the DSA, Gans said. Lisa M. Sodders, (818) 713-3663 lisa.sodders(at)dailynews.com |
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