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Valencia
Community College West Campus Allied Health and Sciences
Building/Orlando,
Florida
USGBC
LEED® Gold
Architect
Baker Barrios Architects/Orlando, Florida
Owner
Valencia Community College Board of Regents
Orlando, Florida
Size/Cost
84,500 sf/$18 million
TLC Services
S/MEP/Audio-Visual/Voice-Data/Energy Modeling
The
Allied Health and Sciences Building at Valencia Community
College West Campus is the first certified green building
at the college, having achieved USGBC LEED NC 2.2 Gold.
The facility gives the college more room to expand and
helps serve the community by training workers for health
care and science-related occupations. TLC designed the
HVAC system to achieve more than 20% in annual energy
cost savings. This, coupled with energy-efficient lights,
windows and insulation, makes the building 28% more efficient
than a conventional building and saves the college about
$41,000 in annual energy costs. Our design goal was to
provide state-of-the-art laboratory space on a relatively
modest budget. This meant making sure the complex laboratory
systems operate as designed to maintain appropriate conditions
in each individual laboratory; at the same time the lab
systems must interact with all other building systems
to provide an efficient and comfortable overall building.
Providing accurate energy modeling for a complex lab facility
was challenging due to the specific air change requirements
and exhaust needs of the spaces. Computer modeling was
used in the design for the building envelope, HVAC systems,
and lighting.
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