Contract for upgrades at two campuses

Los Angeles Community College District awards $32 million contract for Science, Technology, and Biology upgrades at two campuses.

Moving to meet today's technological and medical teaching challenges, the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) announced that its Board of Trustees awarded local businesses $34,251,543 in construction contracts that includes a new Science and Technology building at Los Angeles City College and new biology facilities at Mission .

In addition, the trustees approved a contract for walkway repair at Pierce College and for improvements to the journalism building at Valley College.

Each contract is the result of formal competitive bidding and will receive funding from the Proposition A/AA Bond program, the $2.2 billion bond measures overwhelmingly approved by Los Angeles voters in 2001 and 2003.

"The new science, technology, and biology facilities we approved today are prime examples of how the Proposition A/AA Bond Program is meeting the primary educational challenges of today's Los Angeles economy," said Georgia L.Mercer, president of the LACCD Board of Trustees.

"By awarding these construction contracts to local businesses, LACCD is keeping the community directly involved as we modernize the campuses of our community colleges".

LACCD's Board of Trustees authorized the following construction contracts during April 2007:.

Los Angeles City College: Sinanian Development, a local business based in Tarzana, Calif., will receive $31,505,104 to construct a new Science and Technology building.

The project will provide a three-story, 85,195 sq.ft.concrete and steel facility with a partial roof-deck that will house classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, storage and support space, and offices for faculty and staff.

The building will also be built to meet the standards required by the US Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

SmithGroup's Los Angeles office designed the new facility; Harris + Associates will oversee construction on the building as college project manager at L.A.

City College.

Los Angeles Mission College: The Trustees approved a contract with Kahromic Contracting, a small and local business based in Glendale, Calif.

for construction services on the Instructional Building - Classroom Conversion to Biology Lab project for $929,000.

The project will provide for the conversion through construction of four existing classrooms into one lecture hall and one biology lab.

Los Angeles Valley College: A contract was authorized to provide general construction services for the Business Journalism Building project with Procon Developers and Engineers, a local business based in Tarzana, Calif., for $1,220,533.

Scope of work for this project includes renovation of classrooms and adjacent spaces, and handicap accessibility and safety upgrades.

Pierce College: ACR Concrete and Asphalt Construction, was awarded a contract for general construction services to the Repair Hazardous Walkways project for $121,706.

Under the contract, ACR will repair off grade and cracked walkways at various locations throughout the campus.

The Los Angeles Community College District, one of the largest community college districts in the country, has embarked on a $2.2 billion construction and modernization program at its nine colleges.

The LACCD has contracted 86 percent of the construction program's work to date to local, small, emerging or disabled-veteran enterprise businesses.

Companies interested in participating in this $2.2 billion renovation and modernization program are encouraged to visit www.PropositionA.org and click on "Doing Business with Us.".

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