CENTER FOR DESIGN LAKE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PROJECT REQUEST REPORT

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1 CENTER FOR DESIGN LAKE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PROJECT REQUEST REPORT December 17, 2015

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS CENTER FOR DESIGN PROJECT REQUEST REPORT PROJECT REQUEST REPORT 1.0 Executive Summary Scope and Project Description Prior Planning Needs Analysis Issues Analysis Site Feasibility Space Utilization Capital Cost Development Operating Budget Impacts Schedule Implementation APPENDICES a. cost estimates: total project cost estimate C100 infrastructure cost estimate C100 cost estimate details b. project parameters c. minimum and overarching criteria d. average useful life of infrastructure e. concept site plan and floor plan diagrams f. civil engineering report & estimate g. program growth h. excerpts from Strategic Plan and College Master Plan i. CAM analysis j. LEED checklist k. Center for Design program areas l. Best Practices for reducing GHG emissions m. LWTech GHG trends n. LWTech GHG reduction plan o. LWTech utilization calculation p fall open lab spaces q. industry partners letters of support

3 CENTER FOR DESIGN 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Problem Statement At Lake Washington Institute of Technology (LWTech) our mission is to prepare students for today s careers and tomorrow s opportunities. We are engaged in creative partnerships with local businesses. Being situated at the region s high-technology epicenter, closer than any other technical college to major employers such as Microsoft and Google has presented unique opportunities for LWTech. The College is well positioned to meet these opportunities as evidenced by the fact that graduates of LWTech s applied design and technology programs (encompassing art, design, science, technology, and engineering fields) have found well-paying work with these and many other technology-focused companies. However, Lake Washington is faced with several critical challenges to meet these opportunities: Additional instructional space is necessary to support the rapid and continuing growth of existing Applied Design and Technology programs and new educational pathways; The campus was not built to accommodate today s technology and in order to meet the needs of our business and industry partners, LWTech needs state-of-the-art, technology-rich facilities sufficient for attracting the most promising students yet flexible enough to adapt to ever changing technology; Inadequate or non-existent informal student-centered learning spaces for collaborative work; Programs are spread out throughout campus resulting in the lack of facilities to support program cohesion and interdisciplinary collaboration. Current facilities at Lake Washington Institute of Technology do not support the needs of our students, business partners, and industry. As a result, the College is at risk of not being able to provide the quality and type of education necessary to students to meet today s careers and tomorrow s opportunities. A new building will provide these opportunities and needed program space for growing design, technology, and baccalaureate programs. Proposed Solution To fulfill our mission as an institute of technology, we propose the Center for Design (CD), a 54,800 gross square feet building to be located on grounds immediately next to the main entrance to the College. This building will primarily be dedicated to Applied Design programs and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) instruction. We view our Applied Design programs as essential drivers of 21st century innovation and prosperity. This facility will provide an optimal environment for collaboration between Design and traditional STEM fields. In so doing, the CD will train students for roles in a global economy in which the ability to innovate and engage in multidisciplinary collaboration will measure failure or success. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 1 of /2019 Project Request Report

4 The Center for Design will include: Flexible classrooms/labs to resolve existing shortfalls and meet projected growth, proportioned to accept varied furnishing/equipment layouts, scaled for small to large class sizes, capable of accommodating multiple programs, and containing flexible IT infrastructure to support current & emerging instructional technologies; Innovative space to house Multimedia and Digital Gaming programs with lab space for students/faculty to engage collaboratively in multidisciplinary projects/research; Classroom and collaborative lab space to address the growing Information Technology Application Development program to include a baccalaureate degree; Design studios and classrooms for the highly successful Bachelor of Technology in Applied Design program; Computer lab and design studios for the Engineering Graphics program; Shared collaborative space for work projects and learning experiences amongst programs; Flexible multi-use space to provide a campus event center and open learning space; Informal peer-led study spaces, in recognition that much learning occurs beyond the walls of classrooms and labs; Improved entry-way to the College which will address traffic and pedestrian safety, better access to public transportation, and the visibility of the College. The Center for Design adheres to each of the Guiding Principles established in May 2010 by the WACTC Instruction Commission task force on facilities for the Future, specifically: Capital funding models should recognize and reward multiple use of space on campuses: CD spaces are inherently flexible with the intent of serving multiple programs. Its informal peerled study spaces are integral to student success. Learning and office spaces should promote collaboration, peer-to-peer exchanges, multidisciplinary learning communities, and real-world experiences: Collaboration and industry partnerships are at the very core of the CD concept. New structures should be analyzed and evaluated in the context of the entire master plan: The need for flexible spaces appropriate for use by specialized programs is clearly expressed in our newly updated master plan. Campus facilities and resources should be leveraged and used to build partnerships and collaboration: Our applied design and technology programs are respected in the business community. This proposed facility will bring our ability to collaborate with business partners to a new level. Faculty and administrators should have the necessary support, skills, abilities and tools: The CD will be available 24/7 and offer extensive instructional support. Facilities should be designed with the involvement of end-users: The best facilities arise when end-users are genuinely heard during design. Our PRR process included an open workshop as well as intense collaboration with administrators and faculty. Facilities should be sustainable: Achieving LEED silver is a minimum expectation. The CD will embody our deep commitment to sustainable design, construction, & operations principles. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 2 of /2019 Project Request Report

5 Programs addressed by this project Applied Design Programs: Bachelor of Technology in Applied Design (BTAD) Engineering Graphics Information Technology Applications Development (ITAD) MMDP (Multimedia Design and Production) Digital Gaming and Digital Design programs New Baccalaureate Programs in Design: Application Development/Software Engineering Digital Gaming User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Academic Core: Math, Science, English, Humanities, Direct Transfer Agreement/Major Related Program (DTA/MRPs) Cost Summary The escalated Maximum Allowable Construction Cost (MACC) for this project is $19,731,416. The escalated Total Project Cost is estimated at $30,591,000. The total project cost is less than the OFM expected cost per square foot for the facility type, escalated to the construction midpoint. In addition to the building and project costs noted above, the escalated total project cost for the infrastructure improvements needed to support the Center for Design is $1,476,000. The project cost estimates are included in Appendix A. Project Schedule Pre-design will commence July 2017, design will begin on January 2018, and construction is scheduled for July Project Funding We are committed to providing $500,000 in local funds. We propose the remaining project costs be funded by state capital funds over the next two biennia. PreDesign and Design phase funding is requested for the biennium. Construction funds will be requested for the biennium. 2.0 SCOPE AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Facility The Center for Design will contain the principal instructional environments for applied design & technology programs, now spread across four floors in three buildings on the Kirkland campus. This continues a campus-wide effort begun twelve years ago to consolidate like programs into single locations. With the most flexible classrooms, learning labs, and informal student-focused spaces on campus, the CD will be ideally suited to also meet many of the needs of STEM-related programs and several planned baccalaureate programs. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 3 of /2019 Project Request Report

6 The CD will be a two-story structure located on the grounds immediately next to the main entrance to the College. The proposed facility will contain classrooms, flexible space for collaborative learning, computer labs, engineering graphics design studios, and informal learning spaces used by applied design and technology programs. The CD will provide space for future baccalaureate degrees desired in the Multimedia Design and Gaming program areas, as well as the Information Technology Applications Development program and its planned expansion to a baccalaureate program. The building will also feature a large multipurpose/lecture hall that will serve a wide variety of campus and community needs. This multi-purpose space will be flexible and able to be sub-divided to convert to classrooms, open student learning space, collaborative space, and also be well-suited for college and public events. The Center for Design will include a highly sought-after collaborative design lab to provide the physical setting needed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and encourage exactly what technical colleges do best: learning through making. This collaborative space will offer students opportunities to: Design, prototype, fabricate, and test in a single facility; Work on projects that will prepare them for a variety of design and production workplaces in an ever-changing world; Gain experience working collaboratively on multidisciplinary projects; Execute projects sponsored by outside businesses and in return bring best practices to industry; Challenge the limits of technology and innovation; Increase exposure to other disciplines and career paths; Gain competitive advantage in the job market. In essence, the lab exemplifies the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) instructional model, where design programs are fused with traditional STEM subjects in recognition that all are critical to genuine innovation and success in the marketplace. Benefits of Proposed Solution The ultimate goal is to create a dynamic learning environment that will meet the needs of LWTech s growing Design and Technology programs and be flexible to meet the future needs of employers. The proposed project will be designed with flexibility in mind and provide the following benefits to the College and its students: Promotes student learning and completion by creating real-world, multi-disciplinary program environments with state-of-the-art technology, informal learning spaces, and proximity to faculty offices; Meets industry demand for design professionals who can function effectively in today s design and technology environment; Coordinates closely-related programs into one integrated instructional environment, facilitating increased collaboration among complementary disciplines; Maximizes program space through flexible design and shared utilization of resources; Modernizes lab and classroom space with current technologies; Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 4 of /2019 Project Request Report

7 Provides additional capacity to serve the anticipated increase of 110 FTE annually for the College a cumulative increase of 1,100 FTE over the next 10 years; Provides additional learning opportunities through extended facility hours with labs open for student use, and provide an increased capacity for evening and weekend classes; Creates enhanced visibility, prominence, and stature of the College by its location at the main entrance; Provides appropriate space and design for student and college events and activities, and enhances engagement with community and partnerships with a flexible multi-purpose space. The benefits of this project are numerous. The proposed project meets several critical needs for the College of which first and foremost is to provide a positive student learning environment, meet emerging demand for STEM-related programs and training, provide the ability to support current and emerging instructional technologies, enhance local and community partnerships, and by its location, enhance the prominence and presence of the College in the community. Impact on the Community Our institute plays a significant role in the economic development of the region. The City of Kirkland has identified Lake Washington Institute of Technology as a key player in its Region of Boom initiative, which also includes Boeing, Microsoft, Google, and the University of Washington (see below). This proposed facility will critically support our standing within this elite group. Figure 1: Excerpt from City of Kirkland Suburban Mobility presentation Two examples illustrate how LWTech s applied design and technology programs impact the community: Our Bachelor s in Applied Design students in Fall 2013 created a weather visualization app as part of a computational design project. Their work drew the attention of the Microsoft project manager responsible for Microsoft s own weather app, leading him to suggest a twoway think lab partnership between Microsoft developers and our students. The Gaming and I.T. Applications Development programs have performed production work for numerous local companies and public agencies; including a presentation at the City of Kirkland s rail corridor public forum held at Google s Kirkland facilities. Letters of support in Appendix Q attest to the community and industry partnerships we have developed through our applied design and technology programs. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 5 of /2019 Project Request Report

8 Program and Related Space The following space needs were identified after an analysis of existing space deficiencies and program needs. See Appendix K for detailed area breakdown. Instructional Classrooms/Labs (Primary Use) Net Area % ASF BTAD (Bachelors of Technology in Applied Design) 2,800 Engineering Graphics 4,975 ITAD Information Technology Application Dev.) 4,800 MMDP and Digital Gaming 9,200 Collaborative Design Studio 1,500 General Classrooms (Academic Core, BAS, DTA/MRP) 4,500 Multi-Purpose Lecture/Campus Event Center 4,580 Subtotal Classrooms/Labs 32,355 88% Student Support Spaces Shared Program Storage/Equipment Checkout 600 Galleries, Display & Pin-up Spaces 400 Informal Student Study Spaces 1,400 Faculty Office Suite 2,000 Subtotal Student Support 4,400 12% Subtotal Assignable Area (ASF) 36, % Building Services Support (Restrooms, Mech/Elec, Circulation, structure) 18,045 TOTAL GROSS SQUARE FOOT (GSF) AREA 54,800 ASF = Assignable Square Feet; GSF = Gross Square Feet. GSF based on 67% efficiency ratio to account for mechanical/electrical, and support space. FTEs Accommodated by this Project The following new FTEs will result from space added by the Center for Design: Program Target New 2015 (FTE) Bachelors of Applied Design (BTAD) Engineering Graphics Information Technology Applications Development (ITAD) Multimedia Design & Production (MMDP) Digital Gaming (BAS) N/A Academic courses (new space) N/A Total New Type 1 FTEs In addition to the FTEs above accommodated by the new CD, space vacated by the Applied Design programs in existing buildings on campus will increase capacity to serve the projected 1,107 FTEs for a net increase of 110 FTE annually over the next 10 years. See Appendix G. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 6 of /2019 Project Request Report

9 Special Enrollment Initiatives System-wide enrollment projections through the CAM process do not anticipate local circumstances. At present, 58 percent of LWTech s total Type 1 FTEs come from our applied design and technology programs and the academic core. LWTech s current CAM report projects growth of just 121 Type 1 FTEs from 2014 to The 512 new FTEs identified above were developed from our knowledge of local demand for applied design and technology programs, upcoming and planned baccalaureate programs, and in-process and resultant growth of the academic core. With respect to non-program-based projected growth, in basic terms the current slump in college-age population growth is expected to reverse beginning in 2017, leading to sustained growth for at least two decades. It is essential to bring growth projects into the funding pipeline now in anticipation of increased demand. Figure 2: Annual Change in Population, Ages (Source: State of Washington Office of Financial Management) Population and employment growth in the Lake Washington Institute of Technology service area (traditionally King County east of Lake Washington, extending from the Snohomish County border on the north, Bellevue and Mercer Island to the south, and Issaquah and the Snoqualmie Valley to the east) has consistently exceeded statewide and overall King County growth rates Locally, Kirkland showed the greatest population growth in Puget Sound with a growth of 70% from Our local growth thus exceeds county-based or regional predictions. Optimism is not limited to local sources: A recent study found Washington State to have the fourth highest gain in STEM jobs in the United States between 2001 and Employment in occupations related to STEM is projected to increase by 1 million jobs by Northeast King County is a critical STEM employment center and supportive of the STEAM concept as well, containing among others the corporate campuses of Microsoft and Google. These employers have need for Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 7 of /2019 Project Request Report

10 graduates with skills the CD will focus on developing: digital design, gaming, video/web, and mechanical/industrial design. Technology companies have many thousands of unfilled jobs, but our ability to prepare Washington citizens to fill them is extremely limited. Lack of capacity in our higher education system has negative implications for our state s students, as they are denied access to highimpact career opportunities Lack of available talent is the number one challenge for innovation-based companies in our state, and our inability to solve this problem threatens our long-term success and global competitiveness. FTE growth at LWTech is driven by evolving pathways and inhibited by insufficient instructional space. The launch of DTA/MRPs and baccalaureate degrees in particular has and will continue to drive demand for academic core subjects. By contrast, despite steady demand, FTEs for applied design courses are limited by the inflexible nature and small size of assigned spaces, a situation the CD will resolve. Existing Affected Buildings The Center for Design will be new construction. 3.0 PRIOR PLANNING Relationship to Facilities Master Plan The following aspects of the 2015 Ten-Year Campus Master Plan are addressed in the CD: The expansion of instructional space through a new facility is our highest priority for resolving current and future capacity issues. Beginning with our 2001 Master Plan and extending to the current plan, we have placed a high priority on consolidating like programs to promote inter-program synergies and improve student outcomes. The Center for Design continues the major consolidation effort envisioned for the Kirkland campus. The project addresses facility and infrastructure needs and provides flexible multi-purpose space to meet a critical need on campus. This project includes improvements to the main entrance to address safety, visibility, and enhance the stature of the College. Relationship to Strategic Plan In 2013 we completed our current Strategic Plan. First and foremost, this five year plan affirmed LWTech s existing Mission: Preparing students for today s careers and tomorrow s opportunities but expanded its Vision from its former regional focus by declaring LWTech: To be the college of choice for workforce education. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 8 of /2019 Project Request Report

11 During the planning process our faculty and staff created a Vision Narrative to explain what this college of choice would look like: Lake Washington Institute of Technology is recognized by students, business, community, and peer organizations as the choice for innovative workforce education because we: Value diversity and welcome students from all backgrounds and levels of educational attainment. Create educational opportunities and support for students to achieve success and prepare for life-long learning. Distinguish ourselves by offering creative, cutting-edge, hands-on education. Offer students choices to achieve their education goals through applied, pathway-based education from basic education and certificate programs to baccalaureate degrees. Teach using the latest industry standards and cross-discipline approaches to prepare students for immediate and future employment. Empower faculty and staff to reach their potential in a supportive environment that values collaboration, transparency, respect, and integrity. Work in partnership with business and industry as well as local and global organizations to foster economic vitality and create prosperous communities. Thrive in state-of-the-art facilities that use the latest learning and business technologies to enhance the delivery of education and our internal operations. Implement innovations that result in a financially-sustainable organization. The Center for Design is 100% supportive of this Vision Narrative and the broader 2013 Strategic Plan. While we cannot predict the future job market for applied design & technology students, we can prepare them for jobs that don t yet exist. The new facility will enable us to capture rather than miss opportunities and foster student achievement by preparing them to compete in a global workforce. Relationship to Institutional Goals Our Strategic Plan includes a series of Institutional Goals targeted for implementation over the next five years. The CD advances all four Goal core themes (Pathways, Student Achievement, External Engagement, and Community) in unprecedented, visible and concrete ways: Core Theme 1: Pathways, Goal 1, Strategy 2, requires supporting students in navigating college certificate, degree, and transfer pathways and providing alternatives to traditional core sequences, modes of instruction, and mechanisms for credit accrual. The impetus for the Center for Design came from our clear need to facilitate integration between the BTAD and its feeder programs. As the CD concept evolved, it became clear that the multidisciplinary exploration at the core of our applied design and technology programs most clearly manifested in the Collaborative Design lab offers great potential for educational pathways and modes of instruction previously unavailable and points to another opportunity for evolution of the institution and the students and businesses it serves. In Fall 2014 LWTech added two new baccalaureate programs, and four additional programs are in the planning stages. Like BTAD, these will be inadequately served by the majority of existing facilities, which were constructed for the needs of vocational technical education before LWTech joined the SBCTC. Lastly, enrollment in DTA/MRPs has grown rapidly since technical Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 9 of /2019 Project Request Report

12 colleges were authorized to offer them several years ago, and the need for academic class space to support them continues to grow. Core Theme 2: Student Achievement, Goal 1, Strategy 2, recognizes the need to formalize and centralize student success initiatives. The Collaborative Design lab, for example, is intended to provide alternative pathways to success for students from a broad range of backgrounds, and joins a wave of similar facilities and programs at forward-thinking educational institutions that have found great appeal to technically savvy and independentthinking students. Core Theme 3: External Engagement, Goal 1, Strategy 3, calls for growing continuing and contract education. Our applied design and technology programs have a strong track record of attracting and responding to business community support, as most recently reflected in our inclusion in the City of Kirkland s Region of Boom initiative. The CD, with its emphasis on future flexibility, will provide LWTech an effective tool for rapidly and effectively meeting our partners expectations with minimal need for costly renovations. Core Theme 4: College Community, Goal 2, Strategies 1-3, speak directly to a planned process for capital projects and equipment improvements. The CD concept emerged directly from our campus master planning efforts, and is dedicated to providing applied design and technology instructors and students and their partner programs the state-of-the-art in design- and technology-focused instructional environments. Core Theme 4: College Community, Goal 3, Strategy 1, calls for creating a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity, transparency, and recognition. Each of these terms lies at the heart of the CD concept. Not only are the housed facilities intended to foster intense collaboration, they are physically communicative of the central concept through abundant use of transparent materials and shared informal gathering spaces. The building itself is at the entrance to the College and communicates the stature of the institution and its culture of collaborative learning to the broader community. Relationship to SBCTC System Direction Goals The Center for Design directly advances the goals of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges System Direction, Creating Opportunities for Washington s Future. The System Direction s three major categories are: 1) Economic Demand, 2) Student Success, and 3) Innovation. This project directly relates to all three categories of goals established by SBCTC: Economic Demand: The CD supports increased FTEs both directly, through additional net usable instructional space, and indirectly, by freeing up existing spaces which can be utilized more effectively by other programs. Optimized classroom and lab sizes will increase class capacities, and particularly through the Collaborative Design lab facilitate greater ties between our institution and local businesses with high-quality and flexible learning opportunities. Student Success: LWTech is in the midst of its completion initiative, aimed at improving academic achievement for all its students. Its DTA/MRPs and baccalaureate programs, as well as the WaNIC (Washington Network for Innovative Careers) skills center housed in the Allied Health Building, are providing smooth transitions from K12 to colleges to universities. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 10 of /2019 Project Request Report

13 The CD in particular is dedicated to expanding the pipeline to associate and bachelor s degrees, particularly in technology and engineering fields. Innovation: The CD and most clearly its Collaborative Design lab, effectively responds to the changing nature of how people learn, how they access information, and how both impact communication. The facility is structured to offer a wide variety of technology-rich learning environments, both formal and informal, with substantive capacity to adapt to changing technologies. Furthermore, our applied design and technology programs, supported by the Center for Design, are geared to serve the needs of technology-focused employers in the Puget Sound region. 4.0 NEEDS ANALYSIS Defining The Capital Problem Those colleges providing environments that foster multidisciplinary collaboration are demonstrably more successful at attracting, retaining, and preparing their students for the workforce. In applied design and technology fields, this need is even more acute as highly flexible and collaborative 24/7 workplace environments have become the norm for successful high-tech businesses (e.g. Google, Amazon, Microsoft). The following Venn diagram illustrates the natural overlap of LWTech s applied design and technology programs and highlights the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration: Figure 3: Venn diagram of interrelationships and collaborative potential of applied design and technology programs. Unfortunately, fostering such relationships takes more space than has been typically allocated, and it demands a space mix, from flexible learning environments to intimate break-out spaces to informal student-centered lounges. As a technical college, space such as this is only found in the most recent building (Allied Health) because the campus was inherited from the K-12 system. The vast historic buildings were constructed with traditional silos of self-contained classrooms that included a desk serving as a faculty office. Cross-discipline collaboration is severely Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 11 of /2019 Project Request Report

14 hampered by the architecture. As a result, our applied design and technology programs currently operate from classrooms and labs too few in number and too obsolete and inflexible to support current pedagogy, and with a near-total absence of essential support spaces for use in and between classes. Because classrooms are overscheduled due to high current demand, and due to security conflicts inherent with unmonitored spaces, there is a current disincentive for students to collaborate outside scheduled class time. When LWTech designed its Allied Health Building, it did so in close collaboration with Evergreen Hospital. Those classrooms now mirror the hospital environment with medical-grade equipment and hands-on laboratories simulating medical clinics and the primary hospital in the region. The need for a new building that aligns with the creative industry is no different. We must prepare our students in a learning environment that mirrors their future earning environment. Images demonstrate a flexible work space with moveable computers and furniture allowing for creativity. Images show current Multimedia Design & Production classrooms that inhibit creative collaboration. Currently, faculty brainstorm collaborative, cross-departmental projects for students, but don t have the necessary space for hands-on, large-scale, real-world student projects. The creative ideas go unrealized. In a 2010 survey, 1,500 CEOs reported a strong belief that creativity will be the skill most necessary for success, placing it ahead of rigor, management discipline, integrity Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 12 of /2019 Project Request Report

15 and vision in its priority 1. In his call to graduate all students innovation ready, Harvard Innovation Fellow Tony Wagner claimed creativity is the only avenue to solving the increasingly complex and challenging problems of the world 2. Clearly, an environment that fosters creativity is needed to prepare students to succeed in the dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative environment of the real world. Our students typically attend their classes and then leave; there is no place available to construct the visual dialog needed to create the physical artifacts of learning. Student innovation is by necessity an off-campus experience, to the detriment of other students and the institution. This same logic applies to the baccalaureate programs we currently offer and plan to offer in the future, and the DTA/MRP pathways that so strongly influence our course offerings: Any technical college in which nearly 70% of its gross facility area was built to an obsolete vocational technical institute model cannot hope to succeed in the long term without adopting new academic facilities standards. The bottom line is that the current facilities at our Kirkland campus are insufficient and deficient, and unable to effectively serve the applied design and technology programs and allow us to be a long-term player in the Region of Boom. The solution is a growth project designed to meet the specific needs of our applied design and technology programs, emerging baccalaureate programs, and high-demand academic core subjects, and which frees space currently occupied for these uses to resolve current shortfalls and new uses foreseen by our 2015 Ten-Year Campus Master Plan. Obvious & Critical Needs Need Identified by the Master Plan Immediate space shortfalls were identified at departmental workshops held during development of the 2014 Ten-Year Campus Master Plan as well as at follow-up meetings and campus-wide presentations in Required growth was quantified using space needs standards. Current shortfalls and projected demand were further authenticated through comparison with published population and employment trends data as well as the SBCTC s Capital Analysis Model (CAM) analysis. Determination of our highest priority project is based on the following identified needs: An immediate shortage of general-use classrooms/labs; A strong commitment to consolidate like programs in single locations with collaborative learning spaces to mimic the real-world working environment; A need to address areas of highest growth, which fall outside the traditional vocational technical institute model: 56% percent increase in academic core FTEs since Fall 2001 Highest academic core growth is in the sciences. Providing the lecture component of science courses in general-use classrooms rather than within our science labs would greatly ease the 1 Tomasco, S. IBM 2010 global CEO study: Creativity selected as most crucial factor for future success. IBM Wagner, T. Creating innovators: The making of young people who will change the world. New York: Scribner, Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 13 of /2019 Project Request Report

16 extreme demand for lab space, which now requires scheduling some science courses at inconvenient hours. Adequate space for faculty offices. Currently not all tenured faculty have an office in order to provide confidential advising to students. The need to house current and upcoming baccalaureate programs in appropriate forwardlooking facilities; Need Arising From Applied Design & Technology Program Requirements LWTech s applied design and technology programs are thriving and expanding in the heart of the technology corridor. Unfortunately, the current space does not allow for the learning environment to adequately prepare students for dynamic, collaborative, cross-discipline, handson experiences. In the real world, designers, coders, engineers and manufacturers work in unison. This new space will allow for formal and informal interactions across disciplines in order to instill in students greater creativity, flexibility and awareness of a complex system. Currently, Information Technology, Design, Engineering Graphics and the applied design bachelor s program are spread across four floors in three buildings. Our students require the following: Access to collaborative studio space separate from lecture classrooms with 24/7 access, staffing, and natural light; Exhibition space to promote industry and cultural partnerships; A mix of break-out spaces and informal peer-led study spaces, to promote the campus strategic direction of diversity by encouraging previously unavailable student interaction. By providing collaborative space and closer proximity of these programs, the College can facilitate integration of the fast-growing STEAM instructional concept. Liberal arts study builds essential critical thinking and communication skills and since its 2010 launch, the humanities division has been a major driver of academic core FTE growth. Math and science taught as contextualized content are far more relevant to our students in both the lower and upper division and are integral to student project success. For example, collaboration between computer programming students and design students achieves much better learning outcomes. Students in the ITAD program gain an understanding of programming with purpose instead of coding for coding s sake, while simultaneously developing these students visualization skills. Expansion of this space also provides for future baccalaureate degrees in these programs, including IT Application Development Software Engineering, and Digital Gaming. Need Arising From Baccalaureate Program Requirements LWTech currently offers three BAS degrees: BTAD, Transportation & Logistics Management, and Public Health. These are primarily lecture-based programs, but require break-out spaces and informal peer-led study spaces not currently available. Many new baccalaureate degrees are in the planning stages, and a Dean now carries the title of baccalaureate development for the College to further these efforts. Three new baccalaureate degrees are planned in Design: ITAD Software Engineering, Digital Gaming, and User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX). These degrees require both classroom and lab space which the CD will provide. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 14 of /2019 Project Request Report

17 Need for Multi-Purpose Campus Event Space As part of the College s community outreach efforts and for educational purposes, it is necessary that there be adequate multi-purpose space. This space would be flexible and able to be subdivided to convert to classrooms, open student learning space, collaborative work space, and also able to be utilized for outside events such as forums and career fairs. This space should be readily accessible to students and the community, easily visible for purposes of engaging users, capable of rapidly collecting and dispersing people, and highly flexible. Currently, the College has no such flexible multi-purpose space available. Any events are typically held in the East Building Mall area or in the West Building (Room W401). W401 was originally constructed to house a fashion design program, and it is not easily locatable or accessible, and it lacks any informal lobby space and break out rooms as well as staging and support space. The East Building Mall area is in an open high traffic area, does not provide adequate privacy, is unable to be subdivided, has no acoustical control, and is inadequate for group meetings. A highly functional, multi-use space is critical to Lake Washington s ability to support our Core Themes of Pathways, Student Achievement, External Engagement, and College Community. This space will provide opportunities for a positive student learning environment and participation in activities. It will provide opportunities to enhance local partnerships and engage the local and college communities. Need Supported by CAM The CAM model, by not addressing vocational instruction spaces that constitute a high proportion of the instructional spaces at technical colleges, is ineffective at projecting technical college facility needs. LWTech s current CAM report, however, does identify space shortages noted in Laboratory Facilities, Auditorium, and Faculty Offices. We intend to resolve those space shortages identified by the CAM that are pertinent to our needs through the new CD building and targeted re-purposing of vacated spaces. These projects are identified in detail in our 2015 Ten-Year Campus Master Plan. Alternatives Considered LWTech considered the following possible solutions during the Master Planning process: Relocation of the programs There is no other space available on campus to house the Design programs without requiring major renovation of existing space. Moving the programs off campus would not be beneficial or consistent with the College s philosophy of student success. A lack of access to essential student services (such as advising and financial aid) would severely hamper the potential for student success and completion. Access to related academic classes, library resources, and informal learning opportunities would be significantly limited. Renovation of existing space The renovation of existing space would not achieve the goal of consolidating like programs to foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and would not allow for informal learning and close proximity to faculty offices. Since there is no available space to relocate to, renovation would disrupt almost all programs across campus and the cost of temporary relocation would be prohibitive. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 15 of /2019 Project Request Report

18 Doing nothing Doing nothing is not an option given the Mission and Vision of LWTech. It is critical the College provide additional instructional space to support the rapid and continuing growth of Applied Design and Technology programs, and to continue to create new educational pathways. Student success, industry partnerships, and the future of LWTech would be in jeopardy by doing nothing. 5.0 ISSUES ANALYSIS Life of Proposed Facility The life of this proposed facility is 50+ years. Sustainability The CD will be designed to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver standards. The LEED checklist is included in the Appendix. Strategies for implementation include an abundant use of controlled natural light, preference for locally-sourced materials such as concrete block and brick, native and drought-tolerant plantings, robust well-insulated and sealed exterior wall and roof assemblies, and highly efficient mechanical and lighting systems. In addition, LWTech intends to maintain a low Energy Use Intensity (EUI) over the life of the building by actively monitoring strategically installed utility sub-meters and using enhanced digital control systems. LWTech is forward thinking and will install plumbing infrastructure necessary to support the use of recycled water provided by King County wastewater treatment plants that will be available in the future for use in irrigation, fire systems and toilet flushing. Go to the attached link for more information: ction/reclaimed-water.aspx Further, this project will be designed to meet at least 12 of the best practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (see Appendix L Best Practices). We are proud to report that LWTech is currently on track to achieve our 15% Green House Gas emission reduction by 2020, including new emission sources from the Allied Health Building, constructed in 2011 (see Appendix M). We feel confident that if funding is approved for the construction of the CD we will be able to achieve our 36% Green House Gas emission reduction by 2030, including any new emission sources from the Center for Design. How this project impacts deferred maintenance and repair backlog The CD will impact deferred maintenance and repair backlog by providing access to renovate and repurpose spaces currently housing programs and labs moved to the new Center for Design building. Many of these spaces need significant refurbishments & upgrades that we simply cannot complete while the spaces are occupied. The college will take advantage of this opportunity to determine the highest and best use for these spaces and upgrade them to support institutional priorities identified in our strategic plan. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 16 of /2019 Project Request Report

19 6.0 SITE FEASIBILITY Permit Issues, Variances Required, Environmental Issues, Mitigation and Neighborhood Related Issues A preliminary meeting was held with the City of Kirkland to review this project. The current site location is in keeping with a proposed development site in the approved Master Plan; thus no variances are required. A residential neighborhood lies north of the site, and a landscape buffer will be provided to meet the City of Kirkland s development standards. Street frontage and entryway improvements will also be included in the site work. Utility and Infrastructure Needs New utilities and infrastructure will be required to service the new building. New domestic water and fire suppression services will connect to the existing 12-inch ductile iron water main located in Red Oak Boulevard. Infrastructure improvements include relocating an existing 20 ductile iron water main south of the site to allow development of the CD. An existing sanitary sewer main will also be relocated, and new sanitary sewer service will be provided to serve the CD with a 6 side sewer connecting to the sanitary sewer main. Other infrastructure required to serve the new building include a stormwater detention vault, natural gas, power, and communication services. Please see the Civil Engineering narrative and cost estimate in Appendix F. 7.0 SPACE UTILIZATION Capacity and Utilization Fall 2014 The measurement of capacity and utilization is an intriguing new criterion for the CTC system. The utilization calculator shows us that LWTech exceeds the requirement for 6-new area points for Labs. (see Appendix O_ LWTech Utilization Calculation_). Unfortunately, the calculator requires a related score for classroom spaces in order for any new area points to be awarded. Our project team respectfully requests the scoring committee consider the following: Data that was available in our R25 course scheduling system for the week following the tenth day of Fall Quarter 2014 was incomplete at LWTech. In a number of cases the room location, day of week and time of day was coded as (ARR) to be arranged. This was particularly true for courses with a unique technical project requirement in which the student is granted access to a computer lab for advanced-level project work. Although these students are in fact using our labs, we found no practical way to estimate or quantify their use. At LWTech we have a significant number of programs which require access to specialty equipment such as high capacity computers with specialized high cost software. Students simply do not have access to equipment like this at home. Therefore, LWTech provides a significant amount of both formal and informal Open Lab Time for these students to complete assigned course work. An example of this is Lab T120 in our Technology Center Building. This room is fully dedicated as an Unscheduled Open Lab providing access to high end computers for our MMDP, BTAD & ITAD students. (see Appendix P_2014 fall open Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 17 of /2019 Project Request Report

20 lab spaces). There are no courses scheduled in this Lab and therefore no enrolments to report on the utilization tool. T120 is one example of real teaching and learning that is not reflected in the enrollment data captured in the utilization calculator. A number of our technical programs have open lab time available to students which are not documented in R25. If you look at labs W305, W307 and E134, in (Appendix P_2014 fall open lab spaces) you can see these spaces have open lab times, which demonstrates they are used to a greater extent than the utilization calculator captures. There is no practical way for our team to quantify this type of use across our campus. LWTech is truly a workforce-education college. Our educational niche requires a considerable amount of unique single use lab space. We believe it is not feasible, and in some cases likely unsafe, to schedule other courses in labs of this nature. Examples include, Welding Labs, Machining Labs, Dental and Nursing Labs. As a result, we anticipate the utilization calculator (as it is presently designed) will always deliver lower utilization numbers for colleges like LWTech as compared to institutions that provide a more traditional mix of academic education in support of transfer degrees. At LWTech our classrooms serve a support function for our technical degree and certificate programs. We have an average student-teacher ratio of 18 to 1 for many of our technical degree programs, yet a typical classroom at LWTech has a room capacity for 30 students. These larger sized classrooms allow flexibility in furniture arrangement and teaching methodologies, but the room capacity negatively impacts us in the classroom utilization score. In some instances we even use our larger auditorium and/ presentation rooms which seat students to teach a course because it is available and geographically close to the technical program core. These practical realities conspire to deflate our classroom utilization efficiency (see Appendix o_lwtech Utilization Calculations_). In conclusion, the LWTech PRR development team acknowledges the value of assessing how efficiently colleges are using their current available teaching and learning spaces. We have a high lab utilization but lower classroom utilization for the reasons stated above. Due to the unique characteristics related to the type and mix of programs at LWTech, justification can be found to award the maximum points for space utilization for our Center for Design. New Programs, Changing Mix in Programs This facility will allow for expansion of existing applied design and technology programs, both through additional instructional spaces and through the quality of these spaces. The consolidation of programs into one common space will allow for cross-discipline collaboration simulating the working environment of technical and design industries. This new program space will allow for curriculum changes that will prepare students to work in fluid, dynamic environments. New baccalaureate programs will thrive in the Center for Design. IT Application Development Software Development, Gaming, and User Interface/User Experience are three degrees that require collaboration between IT and designers. A space allowing students and faculty to demonstrate cross-discipline learning will prepare the future workforce to succeed in the critical point where IT and design merge. Lake Washington Institute of Technology Center for Design Page 18 of /2019 Project Request Report