2024 USGBC-CA Green Building Awards
Honor in Water
San Bernardino Valley College through their Career Pathways 2 facility will create a state-of-the art educational facility that offers students and faculty a sense of place unique to their technical programs while allowing them to enhance their learning experience by connecting with the College and surrounding Community. The design of this new facility will promote a safe and sustainable environment, weaving together a story that is grounded in the campus’ local culture, context, and ecology.
The project being a combination of two buildings separated by a parking lot in between, will be comprised of a 39,000 SF Allied Health building on the west side and 26,000 SF Aeronautics building on the east side of the parking lot. The Allied Health building will be primarily focused on the Nursing program and will include classrooms & skills labs on ground level and computer labs, pharmacy tech labs, surgical tech, sterile tech rooms and faculty office area on the second floor. The design of the Aeronautics building will center around its most unique characteristic, the aircraft hangar, and will include a lobby, educational components of the Aeronautics educational program on ground level and classrooms, student common area and faculty office area on the second level.
The design vocabulary will look to building upon the rich history and the existing vernacular of the campus while maintaining an efficient footprint allowing for access to the outdoors for light, views, and supporting the idea of flexible and adaptable spaces to allow for any future expansion and contraction of the programs.
The project is targeting Zero Net Energy with LEED Gold and the aspiration to achieve Platinum certification. The project is pursuing Envision Sustainable Certification for the parking lot and infrastructure and would be the first Community College in California to achieve this.
ZNE Approach :
Allied Health Building:
- High performing envelope with cool roofs and walls.
- Location & sizing of fenestrations based on climate studies aiming to reduce solar heat gain while maximizing daylighting.
- Strategic location of solar screens and exterior overhangs to block direct solar gains.
- Less than 25% window to wall ratio, with high performing glazing.
- Targeting 15% reduction in light power density from Title24-2019 requirements.
- Solar tubes to daylight the core zones on Level 2.
High efficiency Air Cooled VRF system with fresh air provided by Heat pump DOAS unit system to the terminal fan coil units + High efficiency electric DHW heating.
Aeronautics Building:
- High performing envelope with cool roofs and walls.
- Operable roof monitor windows allowing for mixed mode ventilation when conditions permit.
- Roof top monitors for daylighting the high-volume hangar space
- Strategic positioning & sizing of windows.
- Less than 20% window to wall ratio.
- Solar screens and exterior overhangs to block direct solar gains.
- Clerestory windows for daylighting the high-volume hangar space
- Ceiling mounted fans in the hangar space to allow for more uniform airflow.
- Targeting 15% reduction in light power density from Title24-2019 requirements.
- High efficiency Air Cooled VRF system with fresh air provided by Heat pump DOAS unit system to the terminal fan coil units + High efficiency electric DHW heating.