Facilities Master Plan

Gray Science Building

Building Description and Use:
The Science Building is a two story, 38,000 square foot structure constructed in 1991. The building houses thirteen basic sciences laboratories, five general purpose classrooms, twelve faculty offices, and one secretary’s office.

Building Energy Use Characteristics:
The building uses electricity for lighting, cooling, air, and chilling/heating water circulation, and general equipment. Steam, generated with natural gas at the College’s South Central Plant, is used for heating and domestic water heating. The building uses chilled water generated from electrical power at the College’s South Central Plant for cooling.

Building Energy Use Indices are as follows: Data not available.

Structural Characteristics:
This facility consists of two levels.

The structural system consists of a structural steel frame over reinforced concrete piles driven to 19 feet below grade. The first floor slab is reinforced concrete slab poured over a 24 inch thick, lime stabilized, select material base.

Exterior walls are non-load bearing brick. Interior walls are a mix of painted sheet rock and vinyl covered sheet rock. Second floor is concrete poured over a steel corruform pan.

Floor coverings are a mix of carpet, vinyl composition tile, ceramic porcelain, and rubber sheet.

Ceilings are suspended acoustical tile.

The roof structure is a three ply built-up system. Emergency purge systems were installed for the inorganic and organic chemistry labs in 1995-96. Roofing was partially repaired in 1997.

The facility has an audible fire alarm system.

Estimated Replacement Cost: $3,800,000.00