The City College of San Francisco Joint-Use Academic Facility, built by Bovis Lend Lease business, has lately obtained LEED-NC Gold certification provided by the US Green Building Council.
The Joint-Use Academic Facility measuring around 110,000 square foot on City College's Ocean Campus was constructed by Lend Lease in 2010 under a construction manager at Risk delivery accord.
The three-story construction accommodates specialized laboratories, classrooms, study space, offices and student development facilities and incorporates a range of green design components and initiatives. Before commencing the construction, Lend Lease has operated along with the engineers, designers, owners and other government agencies in completing the logistics, phasing, approvals, sustainability, quality and constructability processes. Such collaboration significantly helped to the success and early completion of the project. The other details such as building information modeling (BIM), open-book tendering process, arranged construction phase and integrated processes for government approvals initiated by the company has enhanced the value of the project.
The building incorporates a central atrium that utilizes louvered windows and skylight systems to provide natural airflow and lighting and to allow exhaustion of heated air through the provided ventilations to maintain passive cooling inside the atrium and to improve the air circulation within. The west facing window systems offers the required shading to the frontage facing the west. The erection of rooftop garden cuts down the storm water wastage while bringing down the heat-island effect of the roof. The radiant flooring system assists in even distribution of heating and cooling requirements within the building.
During the construction process, Lend Lease utilized low VOC sealants, adhesives, paints and coats and carpets to improve the air quality within the building. The building has integrated solar panels installed over the south side entry of the building to generate electricity, to cut down the functional costs of the building and carbon dioxide discharges. The recycling techniques followed during the construction process brought down the need for new materials and saved over 70% of the old materials from reaching the landfills.
Source: http://www.bovislendlease.com