Westpointe Workforce Training and Education Center, WWTEC Utah Architecture, American Building Photos
Westpointe Workforce Center in Salt Lake City
May 12, 2021
WWTEC at Salt Lake Community College
Design: SRG Partnership
Location: Westpointe Workforce Training and Education Center, Salt Lake Community College (SLCC), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The Westpointe Workforce Training and Education Center (WWTEC) at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) is a technically sophisticated facility for hands-on learning that supports the community’s training needs in a flexible, high-quality space. Located in an underserved area of Salt Lake Valley, the adaptable WWTEC aligns with SLCC’s mission as the area’s primary post-secondary provider of technical workforce education, addressing a growing shortage in skills-based workforce.
The facility brings together technical education in advanced manufacturing trades active in the
Salt Lake Valley, including Composites, Plastics, Machining, Welding, Electronics, Diesel Technology and CDL Truck Driving. Collaborative lab, classroom and shop spaces based on real-world working environments help ensure students are well-equipped to enter Utah’s growing STEM-based industries.
The WWTEC sits on a highly visible site immediately west of I-215, creating an opportunity for the building to express the dynamic activities held within, as well as the values of the College. The building’s east façade became an opportunity for SLCC branding, while the facility’s form ended up being 121,000-square-feet and more than 600 feet long.
The magnitude of the WWTEC was addressed in design by breaking up the mass through form and materials, accommodating the human scale with a more approachable, pedestrian-friendly environment for students and faculty. Varied solid/void relationships were also employed to break up the mass, with a strong inside/outside connection between public spaces.
The exterior massing demonstrates the WWTEC’s function and interior program, while themes of visual transparency within put training on display to motivate and inspire students. High-bay lab spaces are organized along one side of a linear spine, with two levels of classrooms and support spaces on the spine’s street side.
Envisioned as a healthy, vibrant learning environment for students and faculty to encourage learning, the interiors feature higher ceilings, abundant indoor-outdoor connections, natural daylight, and passive learning spaces in which users can interact and socialize. The interior program separates the industrial scale of hands-on shop space from the human scale of general academic classrooms and open study areas.
The facility offers the highest possible levels of life safety, security, daylighting, clean air, and the efficient use of energy and water in support of all activities held within. In pursuit of net-zero electricity usage, a 3,520-panel, roof-mounted solar array provides much of the Center’s electrical needs. Furthermore, 28 skylights and continuous clerestories bring in ample natural light to boost cognition and productivity.
The WWTEC gives students pursuing technical careers a unique one-stop education center in preparation for the workforce, serving the College and its community for years to come.
Westpointe Workforce Center in Salt Lake City – Building Information
Architects: SRG Partnership
Design team:
Jane Hendricks, FAIA, Principal-in-Charge
Uwe Bergk, AIA, Project Architect
Jennifer Youngblood, IIDA, Interior Designer
Yang Liu, Designer
Leslie Boll, Environmental Graphic Designer
Consultant team:
Design Architect: SRG Partnership
Interior Design: SRG Partnership
Architect of Record: ajc architects
Contractor: Big-D Construction
Civil Engineer: Meridian Engineering, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Reaveley Engineers & Associates
Mechanical & Plumbing Engineer and Energy Modelling: Colvin Engineering Associates
Electrical Engineer & AV: Spectrum Engineers, Inc.
Landscape: Landmark Design
Envelope Consultant: Intertek – Architectural Testing Inc.
Materials/Products
Perforated Exterior Metal Panel Cladding: NorthClad
Acoustic Ceiling Panels: Armstrong
Ceramic Tiling: Royal Mosa, Statements
Wood Ceilings Roseburg / Columbia Forrest Products
Construction Cost: $33 Million
Total Project Cost: $43 Million
Photographer: Alan Blakely
Westpointe Workforce Training and Education Center, Utah images / information received 120521 from SRG Partnership
Address: 4600 Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, UT 84123, United States
Phone: +1 801-957-4111
Location:SLCC, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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