2. E. VVC Campus Growth
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3. Five-Year
Capital
Construction Plan
• Dr. Prem Reddy Health & Science Building 2015/2016
• $14,277,000 Non-State Funded
• Vocational Complex Expansion & Renovation 2016/2017
• $6,647,000 Non-State Funded
• Student Services One-Stop Center 2018/2019
• $9,286,000 Non-State Funded
• Engineering & Arts Building 2020/2021
• $24,425,000 State Funded
• $ 3,330,000 Non-State Funded
• Building 52 Renovation to Classrooms 2019/2020
• $ 1,719,000 Non-State Funded
• Building 50 Renovation to Classrooms 2019/2020
• $ 1,337,000 Non-State Funded
• Academic Commons Building 42 Renovation 2020/2021
• $ 1,502,000 Non-State Funded
• Structural Repair of Administration Building 2018/2019
• $ 5,307,000 Non-State Funded
• Old Nursing Building 32 Renovation 2020/2021
• $ 4,707,000 State Funded
• Art Building 22 Modernization 2020/2021
• $11,258,900 State Funded
4. E. VVC Campus Growth
– Usability of the existing site:
• The current VVC site is 252.6 acres
• No buildings can be built in the flood zone
• Only one story light weight buildings should be
built in the Low Soil Bearing Value Zone
• Leaves less than half the property for standard
college structures
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5. E. VVC Campus Growth
• With a current permanent capacity of 8,140 students, with projected growth
to 20,000 students this represents potentially more than a 100% gain in
facilities and parking. It raises a question about how much growth VVC can
absorb and still preserve its current character and most desirable qualities?
– Small to medium size buildings, mostly one story
– Lake-centered campus layout
– Reasonable walking distances
– Surface parking
– Lots of open landscaped spaces
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6. E. VVC Campus Growth
• How the Principles of Campus Design Apply to VVC
– Victor Valley College is unique in that it is effectively two campuses -- separated by a 60’
elevation change and by roughly 1,500’ (3,000’ overall – roughly 2/3rds of a mile!
– Each campus fortunately lies within its own 10 minute circle
– However the distance and 60’ bluff separate the two campuses considerably
– The lower campus lacks necessities such as classrooms, toilets, and student study
space, and amenities such as food service
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7. D. Most Salient Findings about Growth
– The Lake is VVC’s most unique organizing feature
• Buildings are located relative to the lake and are linked by the lakeside promenade walkway
• This is opposed to the more usual campus linkages such as axes, plazas and greens
• Distant Views from atop the Mesa are additional visual features
– Missing however is a strong entry to VVC
• A formal entry where one is dropped off and becomes a pedestrian
• Entering VVC can be confusing, especially in locating the usual elements that occur
near a main entrance
• Many colleges have a ceremonial entry, which serves to orient one to the campus
• The closest approximation at VVC is the ATC entry that provides a strong visual presence
• Master Plan 2007 sought to create two formal entries, one for the lower and
one for the upper campus
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8. E. VVC Campus Growth
– There is a general Westward growth trend of the campus.
• Reason: purchase of the west 33 acres in the mid-1990’s created more level land – in turn
creating more parking and potentially more building sites when compared to the east side of the
lake. This will increase the campus population on the west side versus the east
• It may reduce traffic to the SAC and Library unless measures are taken to increase the
instructional capacity on the east side
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9. E. VVC Campus Growth
– Another way of looking at the campus is how it is organized
• It is composed of concentric rings
– The center ring is open (the Lake)
– The next outer ring is the buildings
– The outermost ring is parking
• Though this organization was unavoidable, the problem comes with how it
accommodates growth
• Once the building ring is filled, the growth must displace other functions
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10. E. VVC Campus Growth
– Another way of looking at the campus is how it is growing
• VVC has reached the point where there are few remaining building sites around the lake
• This has necessitated displacement of the parking lots closest to the buildings
• Close-in parking remains near Administration #55 and Student Services to serve the PAC and
mainly staff
• Jacaranda, once on the edge of campus, now occupies strategic land in the path of
building expansion and divides-off the new west parking lots from central campus.
• There is a graded pad on the southeast corner of the upper campus suitable for a
building or for parking.
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11. E. VVC Campus Growth
• Best Strategies for Dealing with Growth
– Given Victor Valley College’s current instructional Capacity/Load Ratios of
87% for Lecture and 51% for lab, the following would be the best strategy:
1. Add new space first
2. Remodel existing space later
– The alternative of remodeling or modernizing existing space first doesn’t work
well.
• It doesn’t usually increase total space
• It takes space off line during reconstruction
• It can trigger expensive code upgrades
– The opposite approach of remodeling without the benefit of new space is best
summarized by a comment by one of the deans on campus in observing past
practices:
“Without more space, it becomes a cross between musical chairs and
dominos.”
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12. F. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
• After extensive research, surveys, interviews, etc., here are the most pressing problem areas:
1. Instructional space shortages (classrooms & labs)
• 2014 Capacity/Load Ratios are significantly below 100% (Lecture 87%; Lab 51%)
1. Inconvenient, scattered classroom layout
• Discourages their use
• Adds extra burden to labs, already in shortest supply
1. Office support services unnecessarily fragmented.
• Student Services - in 9 buildings, when one would be ideal
• Administration - in 4 buildings, when one again would be ideal
• Results in split functions, duplicated space, inefficient use of staff, inconvenient for all
1. Tutoring split into two locations – when one is normal
• Again, inefficient use of staff; inconvenient for students
• The DSPS tutoring operation may have a greater affinity with general Tutoring than with Student Services
1. Academic Commons, former tutoring center, a ‘catch-all’ for homeless programs
• Currently the home of CIS, which lost its earlier home in Building 50 to student services
• STEM Dean and staff, Gear up
1. Tech Mall in Building 21 largely unused for Lab and Independent Learning
• Of the 5 labs fronting the Mall, only one is used for regular lab instruction; the others taken over for various
tutoring/remedial learning, student services, and faculty training
• The Mall itself was partially taken over by Tutoring, interfering with its primary purpose
1. Jacaranda divides off the west campus
• Creating pedestrian hazards
• Occupying valuable inner campus land
There is an overriding need to 1) address growth while 2) reorganize
space VVC already has.
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13. E. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
1. Instructional Space Shortages (classrooms & labs)
– The following is the ranking in order of need for additional square footage at
VVC - only:
• Number One, by a large margin: Laboratories (estimated at 104,000 ASF at VVC)*
• Number Two: Classrooms (11,212 ASF – 14-16 classrooms at VVC)*
• Number Three: Offices (3,684 ASF at VVC)*
• Number Four: Library (2,781 ASF at VVC)*
– Library however has substantial space in Building 21 (11,755 ASF) and in Building 55 (1,344 ASF).
Both locations do not accommodate true library operations and if reclassified to their actual uses
would increase the library shortfall to 15,880 ASF – raising it to number Two
– * the shortfall figures subtract the equivalent space at the RPSTC
– In addition, other building uses were analyzed, including Tutoring and
Maintenance & Operations
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14. 1. Instructional Space Shortages (classrooms & labs)
• Present Distribution of Laboratory Facilities:
– Throughout Upper and Lower Campus
– Generally on the periphery, where they are best situated in a well-planned campus
– Overall, with minor exceptions, Labs are satisfactory in their current locations
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15. 1. Instructional Space Shortages (classrooms & labs)
• Further Analysis of Lab 210 Space:
– Current shortfall is about 104,000 ASF
– New Projects in planning that address the Lab shortfall:
• Music Building Modernization -- 600 ASF Lab – Recently completed
• New Health/Science Building -- 13,390 ASF Lab
• Vocational Building Expansion (New Auto/Welding Building) -- 7,799 ASF Lab
• Engineering & Arts Building (Five Year Plan) -- 25,750 ASF Lab
• Aggregate total: 47,539 ASF Lab, or a little less than half the shortfall
– Secondary Effects Projects;
• The current Welding Lab #61 freed up = 2,862 Lab ASF
• *Art #22 freed up = 9,555 Lab ASF
• Ag Plant Lab #60? freed up = 4,190 Lab ASF
• Electronics #62 freed up = 6,442 Lab ASF
• CIDG #63 freed up = 3,196 Lab ASF
• *Digital Animation #67 freed up + 1,796 Lab ASF
• Aggregate increase = 25,170 Lab ASF
– *Art #22 more likely to be converted to Lecture & Office space, subtracting about 10,000 ASF
– *Digital Animation is currently in a temporary building, eventually to be removed
• Leaves about 13,400 ASF of potential Lab derived from Secondary Effects
– Suggests about 43,000 ASF of additional lab needed
• Just to meet existing need – without growth
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17. E. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
• New Projects in planning that address the Lecture shortfall:
• Vocational Building Expansion (New Auto/Welding Building) – adds 2,600 ASF Lecture (four classrooms,
all on the lower campus)
• Engineering & Arts Building, not yet sited, as currently programmed adds 3,940 ASF Lecture
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18. E. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
3. Office support services unnecessarily fragmented
• Present Distribution of Student Services Facilities:
– Principally in 3 buildings with smaller satellite operations in 6 additional
Buildings = 9 building locations
– Extremely inefficient; weakens communication; consumes extra space
for duplicated functions such as queuing, reception, work rooms, meeting rooms
– Confusing to first time visitors and students
– Needs to be consolidated into one building, if possible
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19. E. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
3. Office support services unnecessarily fragmented
• Present Distribution of Administrative Facilities:
– Into 4 Different Buildings
– Inefficient use of space with poor communication between related functions
– Confusing for first time visitors
– Also needs to be consolidated into one building, if possible
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20. E. Most Salient Findings about Facilities
3. Office support services unnecessarily fragmented
• How to Unravel the “Puzzle”
Of the various options considered, we recommend the first ‘domino’ is
construction of a new Student Services Building.
– Student Services is the most spread out of all and would benefit most from consolidation
– That option in turn frees up more space in other buildings:
• In Building 55 it permits the conversion of the entire building to Administration – allowing
consolidation of administration
– And in turn at least the elimination of Building 10A.
• It frees up Building 50 and 52 for reconversion to classrooms and faculty offices – solving the
near term classroom shortage
• It eliminates all the upper campus temporary buildings used for student services and frees up
temporary student services locations in the Building 21 Tech Mall and the SAC
– Student Orientation Room and Student Veterans Office
• It frees up Building 10 for a number of desirable possibilities:
– Expanded Board Room, home for largely off campus programs like Cooperative Education, adjunct
faculty, potential Hospitality programs, conferencing/meeting rooms, etc.
– Here’s how it might work.
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21. Student Services
– New One Stop Center with new Entry Plaza
• One story building at 90% efficient should be around 19,200 (21,400 GSF with growth)
• Room for future building expansion
• Ideal rectangular shape for a one-stop with a 30’ mall down the center
• At $322/GSF for office space, a new building will cost today $6,200,000 ($6,900,000 w/ growth)
• Add 33% to cover site development and soft costs = $8,250,000 ($9,200,000 with growth)
• Add $1 million for plaza and entry drive = $9,250,000 ($10,200,000 with growth)
• Subtract $50/GSF if wood construction is used = $6,950,000 ($7,750,000 with growth)
• Add $1 million to the wood version for the plaza = $7,950,000 ($8,750,000 with growth)
» Estimated Cost $ 9,286,000
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22. Administration:
– Consolidate Administration into Building 55:
– Building 55 currently has 9,109 ASF / 13,124 GSF of available space –
– 9,200 ASF is what is needed to accommodate most of the office-related functions
– Building 55 was designed to be the college administration building
– Includes internal remodeling of #55 while addressing the structural issue ($1.5
million), preferably done concurrently
– Estimated remodel cost @ $200/GSF = $2,625,000 + $1.5 million =
$4,125,000
– Add for limited site work and soft costs @ 28% = $5,300,000
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23. 2. Inconvenient, scattered classroom layout
• Recommended Plan, Reconvert 50 & 52 to Classrooms
– Convert Buildings 50 & 52 back to classrooms (& if needed Business/CIS Labs) and faculty offices
– adds up to 14 classrooms plus faculty offices
– Option to either relocate or retain Audiovisual Services in Bldg. 50
– Adds 15-20 faculty offices
– Classrooms would lie well inside the 10 minute circle
– Provides a large pool of much-needed classrooms for the liberal arts programs
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24. 4. Tutoring split into two locations
• Present Distribution of Tutoring/Learning Assistance Facilities:
– Presently on opposite sides of the lake in Building #21 and Building #42
– In Building 21, Tutoring occupies the Writing Center and Basic Skills Lab (both about 1,200 ASF)
and the east portion of the Tech Mall estimated at about 1,200 ASF = 3,600 ASF
– In Building 42, Tutoring is composed of the Math Success Center occupying = 3,600 ASF
– If DSPS tutoring is also considered, it occupies roughly half of the space in Building 50 assigned to
student services = 2,150 ASF
– Total space requirement without offices = 9,350 ASF
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25. • Consolidate Tutoring by converting Building 42 Academic Commons back to
Tutoring, while adding DSP&S Tutoring
– Currently the building has 12,376 ASF / 14,752 GSF
– The grid pattern on the floor plan indicates a raised computer access floor was installed mostly
throughout the building
– Unlike the Tech Mall, this building was remodeled with appropriate acoustics for tutoring
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26. Tutoring:
• Recommended Consolidation of Tutoring/Learning Assistance:
– Building #42 – has 12,376 ASF / 14,752 GSF
– Should be ample space to accommodate the 9,350 ASF of tutoring plus offices
– Minor Remodel as required to meet the program -- $250,000 - $500,000?
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27. 6. Tech Mall in Building 21
• 3 or 4 main labs fronting the mall can be converted to CIS labs:
– The 4th lab is already a computer lab (the “Mac” Lab)
– Labs vacated by relocation of Tutoring and Student Services Orientation Room
– Reflects the need for a new home for CIS resulting from conversion of the
Academic Commons to Tutoring
– Labs already have raised floors and the needed technical support spaces
– Several labs already have prep rooms and faculty offices
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28. New Welding / Auto Building
• New Voc. Tech Classroom and Lab Building:
– Currently in D.S.A.
– Supplies 4 badly needed classrooms and toilets to the lower campus Voc. Tech. grouping;
relocates Welding into a modern new lab
– Currently programmed for 10,399 ASF / 13,000 GSF, this building will be one story
– Its location is to be near the center of the Voc. Tech group located immediately south of the
Automotive Building
– Estimated cost is $6,500,000
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29. Engineering & Art Building:
• New Engineering and Art Building:
– Currently in the College Five Year Plan seeking state funding
– Addresses deficiencies with the current Art 22 Building and a need to bring certain
engineering and pre-engineering programs to the upper campus to be in proximity
with sciences and math and close to a pool of classrooms
– Currently programmed for 32,790 ASF / approximately 44,000 GSF, this building would be a
minimum of two stories in height. It will also need space for a large tarmac to
accommodate outdoor labs
– The southeast location on a graded pad below the mesa has also been considered for a
new one-stop center
– The two most feasible sites without closing Jacaranda are north of the
Nursing Building and the southeast pad.
• Estimated Cost $27,550,000
» Seeking State Funding with District Match
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30. • Conclusions
– Composite Plan of the recommended solutions
• Places most classrooms well inside the inner campus circle
• Places most interdisciplinary functions inside the inner campus circle as well
• Student Services intake functions will be near a gateway
• Student Services ongoing functions will be part of tutoring
• Building 10 is available for community-oriented programs and board meetings
• Engineering & Art Building located appropriately on an edge with sufficient tarmac space
– Is this the most favorable?
– Are there other alternatives?
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Talk about the Binders, What's in it? 1. Five year plan 2. FPP Final Project proposal. 3. Draft of the long range facilities master plan update. 4. Information on future proposed projects 5. Proposal for funding these projects.
Point out Core of the Campus, 2 areas ( Circles) of instruction / New Health & Science Building /Possible Building areas / Traffic patterns/ Bus Routes, / Entrance points/ Solar Generating Facilities point out future River walk project and Apple Valley Bike path Route
Talk about the annual submission of the 5 yr. plan ( June 30th) and Space inventory (October) is how together we demonstrate our facilities needs to support instruction. We work with Instruction / Ed master plan/ Campus wide surveys to all departments both Instruction and non-Instructional./ to help create a prioritized list of the District’s facility’s needs. Each project is planned out for (P) preliminary Plans (W) Working Drawings( C ) Construction ( E ) Equipment
Buildable sites
252 acres / Some flood zone areas / East of Fish hatchery on Lower campus limited to one story buildings.
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8,140 is our anytime student capacity based on sq. footages. ( Total Lab & Lecture generated WSCH divided our WSCH capacity) We have approx. 13,000 students and possibly no more than VVC Currently has 548,764 (GSF) and 426,356 of ( ASF )
This slide demonstrates how the campus is divided into actually two separate campuses. Fortunately each are able to accommodate the 10 min walking distance and the 50 min instructional hour. I also would like to point out the need for a shorter inner campus road witch would shorten trips for lower campus users like M&O and reduce response times and ware and tear on district vehicles.
The Lake is not only the center of campus but the focal point as well. Facilities have been constructed around the lake taking advantages of its views thus dictating additional walking distances between classes.
Also missing from the campus is the strong identifiable entry point. Show the 3 main entry points for the campus.
The purchase of 33 acres in the mid 1990’s to the west of the main campus from Spring Valley Lake provided additional opportunities for growth. Using current parking areas for building pads and pushing parking further out to the west. ( show new parking areas )
Here we are taking a look at how our campus exist today with current building sites and parking being located around the lake.
This slide demonstrates how construction over the last 10 years is pushing parking outward from the core of the campus.
New Health / Science Building / Music expansion modernization / Technology building/ Speech Drama Addition to the PAC. Even further back 15 -20 years ago the Science building, Student Activities Building were constructed on existing parking lots as well.
So what are the best strategies for dealing with growth? ( Read Slide)
Cap/Load Ratios in simple terms are the capacity of a programs space divided by the actual generated WSCH
Example: 49,656 capacity / 91,910 actual WSCH would be 54% therefore demonstrating a shortage of 46%.
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( Remember that a cap load ration at 100% is only meeting the minimum standard ) We have 5 large lecture classrooms at our Apple Valley site that are largely under used and hurting our main campus lecture numbers.
Getting off Accreditation sanctions will allow us to move 100 % of our programs out to the Apple Valley site letting us more affectively use our lecture space on both sites.
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This slide talks to planned projects that will help to address the current Lab shortage. (210 is the TOP’S code for Lab space) Taxonomy of Programs. 110 is used for Lecture.
Note how lecture class rooms are scattered throughout campus. Only one real class room building in Building #30 .
Stress the need for 14-16 additional lecture classrooms. / 11,000 sq. ft. is only approx. 13 ea. 800 sq. ft. classrooms.
These two projects will not provide that additional Lecture needs, The Auto welding project will only add 4 new lecture class rooms for shared Vocational use. And the future Engineering & Arts building is mostly labs and needs State approval for funding.
Office Support Services / Student Services Read the slide
Administrative functions could be much more effective and efficient if housed in one location.
How do we Unravel the Puzzle ? Read the slide
A new one stop could be a one story building / Approx. 20,000 sq. ft. Rectangular with a mall down the center for student queuing area. ( Currently in many cases our students wait outside ) Built of wood construction Approx. cost of 9.2 million. Combining functions would help eliminate duplication of efforts and create efficiencies in the way we serve students.
With Counseling relocated to a new one stop Building #55 could be renovated and some structural repairs corrected making it possible to consolidate all of the Administration functions under one roof. Thus creating efficiencies in operations. Est. Cost of 5.3 Million
Recommend converting buildings 50 & 52 back into class room Buildings
This would go a long way in solving the shortage of classroom lecture space. These were once classroom spaces and the shapes of the buildings lend themselves to this layout and use.
Building 21 houses the Writing Center and Basic Skills Lab/ the Math Success Center is in building 42 / DSPS tutoring & testing is located in Building 50. Combining all the like functions into building 42 would create efficiencies in all of the programs and eliminate duplication of efforts.
This diagram shows the layout of the Academic Commons and how it lends itself to a Tutoring Center.
Once faculty offices used for small groups/ open area for open Tutoring/ Large classroom areas for writing Center Etc.
Program adjacencies are also key in the layout of a campus. This proposed tutoring center would be located next to the Library
Projected cost $250,000 – $500,000 The building has a raised computer floor and is well suited for this type of use.
( the 5 year plan shows this as a 1.5 million project this is based on the States CCI Current Cost Index) we feel $55K will complete the project.
Read slide /C.I.S. who would be moved out of building 42 and into the vacated Writing Center with an additional couple of classroom labs adjacent to the writing Center.( Somewhat of a flip flop.) Housing CIS in the Technology Building with the Computer mall has many benefits to the students. This will also ensure that the CIS servers and equipment are in properly conditioned server rooms and provided UPS back up.
Talk about new project
This building would combine what we call clean Vocational education programs like Electronics, Drafting, Computer Animation, Some Ag & Natural Resources and combine them in a facility with Art Programs that have for the most part converted to all computer based photography .
Art is the last remaining building on campus needing Asbestos removal.
( Should be located on the graded pad )
We feel while following the basic principles of campus design these proposed projects not only meet the needs of the students and campus community as a whole they will also allow us to create adjacencies and efficiencies thus reducing future operating cost while we grow smartly to better serve our student population.