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SWINERTON BUILDERS INC.


The 55,000-square-foot Evergreen Valley College Visual and Performing Arts
center will be completed in summer 2009.

Educational Construction
California-based Swinerton Builders is working on Evergreen Valley College’s Visual and Performing Arts
Center in San Jose, the company’s third project on the city’s community colleges.
By Kelly McCabe which manages both colleges. The company completed

W hen the San Jose-Evergreen Community College


District wanted new art buildings for Evergreen
Valley College, it called on Swinerton Builders, a
company it had worked with twice before. Project Manager
Angie Woo says her team was selected because of the past
Evergreen Valley’s learning technology center, which was
completed in 2003, and San Jose City College’s science com-
plex, finished in 2006. Steinberg Architects is working on the
current project with Swinerton, and the two also teamed up
for a learning technology center.
working relationship and “the success and confidence
[Swinerton] delivers.” Artistic Features
The $29.5 million project, which called for two new arts The new music and drama building will feature a 400-seat
buildings, began in September 2007. The buildings – one theater for performances, Woo says. The theater’s mezza-
will house music and drama departments, and the other nine level allows for stage lighting and catwalks for full
will have visual and applied arts departments – make up theatrical productions.
55,000 square feet and were built on an The building is more than 30,000 square feet, and it
Swinerton Builders Inc. –
Evergreen Valley College Visual existing campus parking lot, Woo says. The includes large classrooms such as a piano lab, chorus
and Performing Arts Center project will be finished in summer 2009, in room, voice studios and more, which can each hold more
www.swinerton.com time for Evergreen Valley College’s fall than 50 students, she adds.
Cost: $29.5 million
Site: San Jose, Calif. semester. The visual and applied arts building has two stories and
Scope: Construction The Visual and Performing Arts makes up about 25,000 square feet. Included are six large
Angie Woo, project manager: Center is the third project on which classrooms and five workshops, Woo says.
“It was challenging to stay [on]
budget, but with value-engineer- Swinerton has worked with the San Jose- Both buildings have a stucco finish with zinc panels that
ing, [we were successful].” Evergreen Community College District, accent the shape of the building at the main campus

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