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When a local contractor sought to build the new State College Health Science & Technology Education Center, at the heart of a long-time community college offering 2-year degrees, that recently transitioned into a state college offering 4-year degrees, it knew it had to un-seed the incumbent contractor that had long been delivering projects on the campus.
Project Highlights
PRESWERX worked closely with the contractor’s business development and operations resources to conceptualize a staging and logistics plan that allowed for adjoining but segregated access along the shared main drive in- and out-of the project site, as well as provided detailed wayfinding along temporary circulation paths around the construction site, to connect the main student parking areas with nearby academic buildings that were to remain open and operating throughout construction.
PRESWERX then created a series of renderings and animations depicting the actual construction of the project – from existing conditions, mobilization, site clearing, foundations, structure, envelope, to finishes – all to aid the contractor in communicating its approach to the delivery of the project.
This facility was planned to house a number of academic programs, but its primary function, was to serve as the new home to the college’s Health Science-focused programs. With that in mind, and in consideration of the fact that the contractor had not previously built a teaching-focused health science school, PRESWERX was asked to conceptually model many of the interior spaces, based on information and feedback the contractor had received during its pre-sell effort. The result was, that the contractor was able to discuss in great detail, the costs and benefits to designing, and then constructing, many of the “teaching labs” based on best practices at other recently built health science school’s across the country.
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