June 13, 2005
DMC Board of Regents Touring Construction Site of Industrial Education Complex
Tomorrow (PHOTO OPPORTUNITY)
WHO: Del Mar College President Dr. Carlos Garcia; DMC Board of Regents,
including Board President Gabriel Rivas III and Regent Bill Martin, Buildings
and Grounds Committee chair; Ronnie Biediger, AIA, project architect from San
Antonio-based Kell Munoz Architects; Bill T. Wilson II, FAIA, spokesperson for
WKMC Architects, the consulting architects for the College’s $108 million
capital improvements program; and Ivan Berrey, job superintendent with Marshall
Construction
WHAT: Board of Regents’ Tour of the Construction Site for Del Mar
College’s Industrial Education Complex
WHEN: 10 a.m. (sharp!)
Once the tour begins, Marshall Construction’s job superintendent will
not allow individuals who show up late to join the group. Marshall Construction
will also not allow anyone to separate from the group once the tour starts to
ensure everyone’s safety. Hard hats are required of everyone. Del Mar College
has rounded up enough hard hats for all media representatives.
WHERE: Everyone will meet in the Marshall Construction trailer on the
DMC West Campus. Take the Santa Elena entrance off Airport Road and drive to
the parking lot across from the trailer. A West Campus map is available at www.delmar.edu/maps/west.html.
VISUALS/UPDATES:
• Diesel Technology Building
Addition Construction is substantially complete with the addition encompassing
3,216 square feet beyond the current square footage. Owner occupancy is tentatively
scheduled for July 5.
• Auto Body Technology Building
The facility will encompass 10,705 square feet. Currently, the walls are up,
brickwork is ongoing and roofing and interior work is in progress. A September
1 completion date is anticipated.
• Aviation Technology Building
Facility will encompass 15,867 square feet. Walls are up and roofing and interior
work is in progress. A September 1 completion date is anticipated.
• Metals Technology Building
Facility will encompass 25,226 square feet. All exterior and interior walls
are up. Crews are finishing up brickwork, and interior wall painting will start
next week. A September 1 completion date is anticipated.
FYI: Last December, the Del Mar College Board of Regents broke ground
for the College’s new $9 million Industrial Education Complex. The initiative
became the lead project of the institution’s $108 million capital improvements
program to provide much needed space for growing programs in the Department
of Industrial and Technical Education.
Overall, the complex will encompass 88,500 square feet and replace six obsolete
shop-training buildings built back in the late 1950s. Programs such as aviation
maintenance technology and nondestructive testing, auto body technology, welding
applied technology, diesel mechanics and industrial machining will be housed
in separate facilities.
New facilities will also provide specialized classrooms and laboratories for
technologies evolving in the workplace.
Kell Munoz Architects, based in San Antonio, designed the new complex. In January
2004, the design team unveiled third level or final concepts during the monthly
Board of Regents meeting. Before architectural concepts were developed, a project
team for the Industrial Education Complex developed a program document that
covered the needs for the College’s programs in industrial education.
WKMC Architects, Inc., is the coordinating architectural contracted by the Board
to assist with the $108 million program. Marshall Construction was hired as
the general contractor for the project.
Contact: Dr. Lee Sloan, Dean of the Division of Occupational Education
and Technology, at 361/698-1700
-DMC-mce
Editor’s Note: Original releases about each program that
were distributed as part of the December 2004 groundbreaking ceremony will be
made available as part of a packet tomorrow.