DeAnza College, Mediated Learning Center

Sandis provided engineering services for the development of DeAnza’s new $54 million, 66,900 g.s.f. Mediated Learning Center. The two-story building features a central atrium, two mediated learning classrooms (100 students each); eleven classrooms (40 or 50 students each); study areas; student café and lounge areas; tv studios; and offices. The center will house offices for Technology Resources Group, Distance Learning, Staff and Organizational Development as well as flexible general-purpose classrooms and labs (anthropology, sociology and world languages). Services include: project programming, addressing site constraints and full design services for a new learning center.

Services consisting of: grading and drainage plans; storm, sanitary sewer and water systems plans; technical specifications; LEED documentation for civil items; erosion control plan; and services for compliance under NPDES permit and SWPPP documentation. Green features are proposed to include: rooftop photovoltaic system, natural daylight, rooftop solar hot water system, and use of native and low water vegetation.  LEED Platinum. Recipient of: 2012 Structures Awards – Best Green Project.