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12/09/19
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Construction is underway on Orange Coast College’s (OCC) new $50 mil Language Arts and Social Science Building. The three-story, 107.8k sf building is part of a larger initiative to modernize the campus and accommodate its rapidly expanding enrollment.
The project is being built by C.W. Driver Companies, in what is the firm’s’ 10th project for OCC. Design work is being handled by tBP Architecture.Completion is expected by summer 2021.
The Language Arts and Social Science Building’s first floor will house classrooms, labs, an English as a Second Language (ESL) computer lab and room, facilities for the Speech, Debate and Theater Team and a journalism newsroom. The second floor will be comprised of classrooms and connect to the existing Mathematics Business and Computer Center Building, while the third floor will encompass division and faculty offices. The building also will feature two elevators, a lactation room and gender-neutral restrooms on every floor.
This building is financed through a combination of funding from California Proposition 51 and Measure M, a $698 mil general obligation bond provided to construct education facilities for Coast Community College District. In addition to the Language Arts and Social Science Complex, C.W. Driver Companies is managing several other projects currently under construction at Orange Coast College, including the Student Union Complex and Kinesiology and Athletics Complex.
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