COSTA MESA : Orange Coast College to Get New Building
A $14-million Vocational Technology Building at Orange Coast College has passed its final approval and construction will soon begin.
Official approval for the project came from the California Community College chancellor’s office last week and is to go out to bid this month.
Completion is scheduled for February, 1994.
“This is going to be a very exciting project,” said OCC President David Grant, adding that it’s been more than a decade since the campus has had a major construction project.
The Vocational Technology Building will be at the campus’s western edge, replacing the existing one-story technology wing, which was constructed in 1952.
The new building will anchor a long mall that stretches through the heart of campus and starts at the Norman E. Watson Library.
It will feature specialized labs, two large lecture halls and a number of general classrooms.
Fourteen technical programs will be based there, including specialties such as avionics, as well as the study of computer-controlled airplane navigation and communications systems.
Groundbreaking is expected to take place in August, officials said.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
