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2003
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San Diego Daily Transcript-Under Construction - Monday,
August 11, 2003
Education
Village in National City
By:
Kevin Christensen
Work
is under way on the new 3.4-acre, $20 million Education Village
in National City.
The complex
will consist of two buildings and a parking garage. It is
expected to serve more than 5,000 college students.
Education
Village is funded in part by Prop AA, an $89.4 million capital
bond measure approved by voters in November 2000. Additionally,
$7.6 million came from Proposition 47, approved by California
voters in 2002.
Douglas
E. Barnhart, Inc.
is the general contractor on the project. The facility was
designed by NTD Architects.
The village
will be divided into four sections and will include the Higher
Education Center (HEC), a collaborative between Southwestern
College and San Diego State University; a South County Regional
Education Center for the San Diego County Office of Education
(SDCOE) supporting the region's six school districts' 4,000
teachers and 84,000 students.
One building
will be a two-story, 25,000-square-foot steel structure facility
for the SDCOE. Interior work consists of metal stud and drywall.
Features
include a dental lab and computer lab for joint use by the
SDCOE, SWC and SDSU.
Construction
on the project includes infrastructure implementation, all
of the off-street infrastructure, and grading. Grading starts
next week, then onsite and offsite utilities, then the concrete
foundation. Work also includes the structural steel erection
then, rough mechanical, electrical and plumbing.
The second
building is a 48,000-square-foot, two-story steel structure
and will be used by Southwestern Community College.
The Education
Village will have 12 classrooms, various laboratories, a lecture
hall, a family resource and child-care center, and support
facilities. Support facilities will include a bookstore and
dining area.
The project
also includes a three-story, 148,000-square-foot parking structure
with approximately 441 spaces.
The garage
will be structural steel with concrete. Work on the garage
includes grading, concrete foundation and then concrete all
the way up.
The project
team for Barnhart includes Henry Amigable, as project executive;
Chris Giese, as project manager; Michelle Reiner as project
engineer; and Ken Bingham as project superintendent.
Engineers
on the project include Nowell & Associates from
San Diego for landscape architecture; BDS Engineering.
from Lemon Grove for civil engineering;
KNA Consulting Engineers Inc. from Laguna Hills for
structural engineering; HVAC Engineering Inc. from
San Diego for mechanical and plumbing; Johnson Consulting
Engineers from Poway for electrical engineering;
and Innovative Design Group from Irvine
for parking garage design. Subcontractors include
Western Rim Constructors from Escondido for grading,
paving and striping; T. B. Penick & Sons General
Construction from San Diego for landscape irrigation;
Morley Construction from San Diego for parking
structure concrete; McMahon Steel Co. from
San Diego for structural steel and metal decking; and
Spooner's Woodworks from Poway for finish carpentry
and casework. Additional subcontractors include Brady
Company San Diego from La Mesa for doors, frames
and hardware; Perfection Glass from Lake
Elsinore for aluminum storefront and glazing; Simmons
and Wood from Lakeside for painting.
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