Northeast Lakeview College Completes Universal City Campus

Northeast Lakeview College completed construction of its $125 million campus in Universal City, Texas, in fall of 2009. Designed by San Antonio-based Overland Partners Architects in collaboration with Ford Powell & Carson, the newest addition to Alamo Colleges consists of nine buildings of academic and learning space. Built in two phases in just over four years, Northeast Lakeview College is sited on 285 acres and has the capacity to serve 15,000 students. Phase I opened in fall 2008 and consisted of five of the campus’ nine buildings. The 82,000-sf Library and Learning Resource Center contains a 35,000-sf library, learning labs, a cyber café, an auditorium, a student art center, and 40,000-sf of teaching and administrative office space. The 62,000-sf Academic Building and the 21,000-sf Career Technology Building house classrooms, laboratories, and faculty office space. The 26,000-sf Science Building provides biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy laboratories, classrooms, preparation areas, and office space. A 21,000-sf Physical Plant/Operations Building was also constructed. Phase II opened in fall 2009 and consisted of the campus’ final four buildings. The 23,500-sf Fine Arts Building includes classrooms, practice rooms, a rehearsal hall, a drawing studio, and office space. The 25,000-sf Performing Arts Center houses an auditorium, stage, gallery, green room, costume storage, and dressing room space. The 40,000-sf Wellness Building is comprised of two dance studios, a basketball court, a weight room, classrooms, a nutrition laboratory, and offices. Lastly, the 65,000-sf Student Commons/Student Services Building houses a dining hall, enrollment services, student activities center and lounge, opportunity mall, lecture theater, print shop, bookstore, business offices, and classrooms. Multiple sustainable features were implemented in the design of the campus, including daylighting, operable sunscreens, roof monitors for skylights, and the capture of condensate from AC units to use for landscape features. The project team included Austin Commercial as general contractor; Broaddus & Associates as construction/program manager; Datum Engineers as structural engineer; Pape-Dawson Engineers as civil engineer; Goetting & Associates and San Antonio-based CNG Engineering as MEP engineers; and San Antonio-based CFZ Group as landscape architect.