Top 25 of 2000 -- Seattle DJC.COM

#5. Bellevue Community College
Instructional Building (R)

Project cost: $23.9 million

Building R at Bellevue Community College will be part of a central campus pedestrian mall.
(Rendering courtesy of LMN)

Project address:
Bellevue Community College campus

Start of construction:
March 2000

Expected completion date:
Fall 2001

Owner:
Bellevue Community College and the State of Washington

GC/CM contractor:
M.A. Mortenson Co., 14719 N.E. 29th Place, Bellevue, WA 98007, (425) 895-9000

Architect:
LMN, 801 Second Ave., Suite 501, Seattle, WA 98104, (206) 682-3460

Description Architect LMN’s detailed program for Bellevue Community College’s new instructional building (Building R) considered five sites for what will become one of the largest building on campus. The chosen site for the facility will extend and complete the central campus pedestrian mall, which is part of the original 1969 construction, and will provide 72,000 square feet of urgently needed classroom and office space.

Other program elements include student commons areas for informal study and social interaction, meeting rooms, and a modern dance studio. The landscaped courtyard, located between the three-story classroom wing and two-story office wing, provides a gathering space for students and connects the building’s lobby to the rest of the campus.

LMN prepared an energy life-cycle cost analysis and work plan that covers building envelope, lighting and mechanical systems. Structural bay sizes and column layout have been selected to allow the college a considerable degree of flexibility in the years to come, ultimately extending the project’s useful life on campus.

Fixed and movable shading devices, operable windows and light shelves will give individual occupants significant control over light, glare, heat and ventilation. For the primary mechanical system, the proposed ground-coupled heat pump system is expected to provide significant energy savings over more conventional heating and ventilation systems. Individual heat pumps in classrooms or clusters of offices will be ducted to exterior louvers, while heat is absorbed or rejected to the earth through an adjacent wellfield of closed-loop wells. The building configuration and orientation achieves an optimum combination of program, energy conservation and interior environment.

The project included demolishing the college’s old Building K, which was in the way of Building R, and constructing a new 17,000-square-foot Building K for facilities, security and warehouse uses. The new Building K, now complete, is made of pre-engineered steel.

PROJECT PARTICIPANTS


GeoEngineers;	Notkin Engineering;	Adolfson Associates;
AMEC Earth & Environmental;	Candela;	CDI;
Gordon Adams	Michael Yantis & Associates;	Paladino Consulting;
Paul Simonsen;	Rider Hunt Levett & Bailey;	Robert Pielow Associates;
Rosewater Engineering;	Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire;	Sparling;
Syska & Hennessy;	Van de Vanter Group;	Team Technologies;
Building Envelope Technology and Research;	Anas Design Associates;	Seattle Construction;
Apollo Sheet Metal;	Bailey Electric;	Sound Mechanical;
Scoccolo Construction;	Holmberg Co.;	Elcon Corp.