Facilities Master Plan

Technical Vocational 1

Building Description and Use:
The Technical Vocational Building 1 at Lee College is a two story, 34,566 square foot structure constructed in 1967. The building houses 18 classrooms with nine faculty offices, Cisco Academy, Project Leeway, and the College Information Technology and Telecommunications staff. This building is on a campus with 36 other buildings, sharing the same electric and gas meters.

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 electric power at the College’s South Central Plant for cooling, but also has some localized direct powered DX systems.

Building Energy Uses Indices are as Follows:

Structural Characteristics:
This facility consists of a two levels. No basement.

The structural system consists of reinforced concrete footings and foundation walls supporting the steel frame superstructure.

The floor structure at ground level is reinforced concrete slab on grade. Upper level floor consist of steel frame supporting metal corruform pan and concrete topping. Floor covering consists of carpet, terrazzo, V.A. tile, vinyl tile, computer flooring, and exposed structure.

Partitions are standard for the design and occupancy for which the building was intended. They consist of stud and gypsum board, stud and pre finished gypsum board, glass in aluminum frame, clay tile, and glazed tile. Wall is basically paint with select areas of wood panel, vinyl covering, and exposed structure.

Ceilings consist of plaster and paint, suspended system, and exposed structure.

The exterior walls consist of brick with clay tile backup, and glass curtain wall.

Roof structure is steel frame with metal corruform pan and concrete topping. Roof cover is built up. 

Adequate plumbing for facility. HVAC consists of circulating hot and chilled water supplied from boiler building. Air handling equipment is located in this building. A separate cooling system was installed for the file server room in 2004.

Adequate electric for facility. 1000 KVA Transformer.

Condition: Excellent. The entire building, except for the older restrooms and some of the offices, was renovated in 2003. The Cisco Academy was constructed in 2003.

Occupancy: Offices, classrooms, and Cisco Academy.

Estimated Replacement Cost: $3,400,000.00