COSTA MESA : College to Get New Vocational Building
Construction is expected to begin in early September for Orange Coast College’s first new academic building in 13 years.
The Coast Community College District Board of Trustees awarded an $8.5-million contract Thursday night to build a two-story vocational technology building on the west side of the campus. The building is expected to open in the spring of 1994.
The new building will house most of the college’s vocational programs, such as computer-aided design, computer graphics and avionics. The college recently added avionics as a one-year certificate program to teach students how to repair and maintain computer-controlled navigation and communications systems in airplanes.
The vocational technology building will replace the campus’ 40-year-old technology wing next to the art center, college spokesman Jim Carnett said.
The college originally estimated the price of the new building at $14 million, Carnett said, “but the bids came in considerably under that estimate.”
The construction project will be the biggest on campus since the two-story chemistry building opened in 1979, he said.
The only other recent construction was the child-care center, which was built about four years ago, he said.
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