The new four-story building contains a diverse and complex set of programs and educational spaces to support technology-based career training courses, all of which were brought together into this single facility for the first time. The client wanted the building to serve as an example of quality and sustainable applications for construction and educcational programs supported within.Designed to be used as a teaching tool, the building’s architectural expression reveals structural and MEP systems which is useful to students studying environmental applications for those trades. Contrasting exterior materials visually articulate the rich functional mix of interior spaces. The siting, massing and orientation of the building respond to parking, vehicular and pedestrian traffic, preservation of nature areas, and future building development. The result is a unique facility that implements the College’s mission of cultivating new ideas while expressing its tech-savvy image.