It will also provide offices for faculty from those programs, giving them many opportunities to provide students with cross-disciplinary learning opportunities. The campus will remain under heavy construction for a year and a half, until the project ends with the opening of the CILE and the demolition of Building F1 in January of We appreciate the campus community's patience with the noise, dust, and other drawbacks of living with construction, and promise that the beautiful new home for many of our programs will be worth it!
A TCC team, comprised of leadership and members representing faculty and staff committees, have been working with the state and the design and construction teams to design this cohesive building that was built from a sustainability and equity approach. Korsmo Construction will serve as the general contractor and construction manager. Construction Site. The construction site consists of the area around the existing Building See map below:.
The project, which includes the demolition of Building 10 and Building F1 and the construction of the CILE, will take approximately one and a half years to complete. See the timeline below for details:. Special features include:. Each level of the three-story building includes a mix of classrooms, collaborative areas, and faculty offices. See plans below. Korsmo plans to avoid obstructing the main campus walkway throughout the construction process.
However, the walkway south of Building 9 and the walkway north of Building 13, both of which lead to Parking Lot D, will be closed for the duration of the project. Parking Lot D will serve as the construction staging area, and it will be closed June 19 through October Construction personnel will park in Lot G. The impact to students, staff and faculty should be minimal.
Work hours will be 7 a. Construction noise and dust can be expected throughout the duration of the project. Several trees will need to be removed around Building Once cut down, the trees will remain on campus, and some will be used for carving. This new building will provide 51, square feet of modern, inclusive, hands-on learning and gathering spaces for our students, staff and faculty. Designed with an eye of being welcoming to all students, supporting a cohesive indoor and outdoor learning environment and providing a flexible space to allow new models of innovative learning, the CILE is a welcomed addition to the Tacoma campus.
