Educating over 130,000 students a year at nine separate campuses, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the largest U.S. Green Building Council LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) project in the United States, and the first to integrate LEED standards campus-wide. The Los Angeles Times has labeled the LACCD Proposition A Bond Program as “perhaps the most environmentally ambitious (program) of any higher education system in the country.” As program manager of the $1.245 billion modernization, DMJM, in joint venture, is developing (with the USGBC) sustainable design and green building requirements for the campus facilities—a first-of-a-kind undertaking.
Working for the LACCD Proposition A Bond Program, DMJM is overseeing master planning, design, and construction of over 70 new and renovated facilities, including classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and learning assistance centers. In March of 2002, the LACCD board of trustees unanimously approved DMJM’s recommendations and adopted them as the district’s "Sustainable Building Principles, Standards, and Processes" policy. The Los Angeles Daily News made this observation: "Nationally significant, the LACCD committed itself to use environmentally sensitive materials and energy-efficient technology . . . This is really a historic moment for the greening of colleges in the United States."
DMJM’s successful management of the first bond measure, Proposition A, was an important factor in the passing of the second measure, Proposition AA. This second proposition makes available an additional $480 million, for a program total of over $2 billion. |
