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USGBC-LA Sustainable Innovation Award
San Bernardino Valley College - Technical Education Project
2022 USGBC-LA Sustainable Innovation Awards
Portfolio Award
Sustainable Development Strategy Award
San Bernardino Valley College is setting out to establish a high-performance and demonstrative Technical Education Facility, launching its net-zero pilot program. Envisioned as a circuit of sorts, cultivating a highly connected “State-of-the-Art Educational Facility”, “Enriching Student Experience”, “Demonstrating Leadership in High-Performance Design”, fostering “Partnership with Industry”, and “Enhancing Community Relationships”. The 108,000 GSF building houses a robust automotive and EV, electricity, machining, HVAC&R, water, and emerging technologies program. The $70.8M construction project anticipates completion in the summer of 2023. Once contained in a windowless block building with little clue of its function, the new facility is in every sense the inverse, focusing on visual, spatial, and educational connectivity, reflecting its significance to both campus and community. Highly transparent entry and exhibit spaces, a multi-functional lobby, and visually connected circulation, lab, and collaborative sticky spaces throughout provide numerous opportunities to showcase program work and demonstrate the projects numerous sustainability strategies. The building envelope is envisioned as a skin, likened to an automobile body, taking its form in response to function, environment, circulation, views, education, and user experience. The dynamic and industrial architectural and material language of metal paneling, daylight walls systems, shade components, and perforated panels result in an expression that while driven by function and sustainability, is contextual and familiar within the campus context. At the edge of the central academic neighborhood, the projects south and west edges focus on the pedestrian experience. Comfortable landscaped areas flow into an existing campus bio-garden, while the building entry plaza supports a variety of campus and industry events. Along the north and east edges of the site, the utilitarian nature of the automotive yard is well suited with neighboring welding and future aeronautics programs.
The design for the Technical Building Project is envisioned to serve as a Living Lab, maximizing efficiency and environmental stewardship in a demonstrative way. The building management system will communicate energy, water and carbon emissions data directly to an interactive display in the lobby allowing building users to understand the variety of sustainability attributes. Data gathered will be shared with industry partners and used by the campus to study the impact and effectiveness of the strategies. Select strategies noted below support net zero ready energy and LEED Gold targets, result in an anticipated 31% below Title 24, and low EUI of 29 kBTU/sf/year, providing an expected $25,961 annual utility savings
• High performance building envelope & solar response façade.
• Solar chimneys combined with natural ventilation
• Underground water storage
• All Electric mechanical design
• Rooftop Solar
• Solar Glazing Canopy
• Solatubes
• High velocity, low speed fans
• Modular Wetlands
• Direct/Indirect Evaporative Cooler and Heat Recovery Chiller
• DC power and battery storage demonstration