Higher Education

• Higher Education Facilities: Renovation for Sustainability

  Jay Schneider, February 8, 2010
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• UCLA to get more graduate housing

  By Andrew Baltazar, Associate Editor, February 1, 2010
  The University of California, Los Angeles, has begun a new graduate housing project that will occupy 275,000 sf of the campus. The Wayburn Terrace Graduate Housing Project, led by California-based construction management and consulting firm Gafcon, includes a residential building comprising 500 studio apartments, a commons building, and administrative offices.  More

• Fashion school gives old building a make over

  By Andrew Baltazar, Associate Editor, February 1, 2010
  A new art facility for LIM, the College for the Business of Fashion, in midtown Manhattan is the result of a gut renovation of a six-story townhouse-school built in 1880. The new facility will continue LIM's mission of educating undergraduates on the business side of fashion. Architecture firm Butler Rogers Baskett transformed the old building's claustrophobic layout into a modern, multifunctio...  More

• San Diego Mesa College enhances math and science facilities

  By Andrew Baltazar, Associate Editor, February 1, 2010
  A $92 million, 180,000-sf instructional center soon will rise at the heart of San Diego Mesa College in California. Slated to open in November 2012, the Math and Science Building will be funded by Propositions S and N construction bond program. The blueprint calls for four floors of classrooms, laboratory space, and offices for several science departments.  More

• LA tech college uses BIM to update campus look

  By Andrew Baltazar, Associate Editor, February 1, 2010
  Aspen Hall (66,000 sf) and Juniper Hall (56,000 sf) are the latest additions to Los Angeles Trade Technical College, providing new classrooms, lecture halls, and offices. The $80 million side-by-side buildings, designed by MDA Johnson Favaro, contrast with many of the campus's generations-old structures.  More

• BD+C's 13th Annual Building Team Awards... Enter Today!

  Jay Schneider, January 11, 2010
  Nominations are open for Building Design+Construction's 13th Annual Building Team Awards. The competition honors commercial, institutional, industrial, and multifamily building projects whose design and construction reflect the successful integration of expertise from all members of the Building Team.  More

• College uses renewable materials in new library

  January 1, 2010
  A 93,000-sf Library and Academic Resource Center will replace Los Angeles Valley College's 1960s-vintage library. Pfeiffer Partners Architects designed the building to be consistent with the college's master plan, with its learning clusters and arcade circulation system. To obtain LEED certification, the center will use recycled and renewable materials, such as bamboo.  More

• Concrete Solutions

  By Robert Cassidy, Editor-in-Chief, January 1, 2010
  About five or six years ago, officials at the University of California at Berkeley came to the conclusion that they needed to build a proper home for the university's collection of 900,000 rare Chinese, Japanese, and Korean books and materials. East Asian studies is an important curriculum at Berkeley, with more than 70 scholars teaching some 200 courses devoted to the topic, and Berkeley's pro...  More

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