Twitter Facebook LinkedIn YouTube PROJECTS EXPERTISE BLOG MEDIA ABOUT CAREERS PROJECTS Industry Education Location Woodland Hills, CA General Contractor gkkworks Type of work Design-Build Owner Los Angeles Community College District Architect gkkworks Start date August 1, 2009 End Date December 5, 2011 Square Footage 42,000 LEED Certification Gold View All HOMELA PIERCE M&O BUILDING LA Pierce M&O Building Overview Pierce College is one of nine two-year public institutions within the Los Angeles Community College District. Founded in 1947 as an agricultural college, Pierce has grown into a state-of-the-art learning center that offers 100 disciplines to more than 21,000 students. In collaboration with the Los Angeles Community College District, gkkworks, and Cupertino Electric, Southland helped design and build a new 42,000 square foot maintenance and operations (M&O) facility that houses everything from electrical and plumbing to offices and administrative areas. The project also included a new central energy plant that serves the M&O facility. Approach Southland designed and constructed the renewable energy component of the central plant using a solar thermal system that features 4,800 individual evacuated tube collectors installed on the M&O facility’s roof. Southland selected solar absorption chillers to heat and cool buildings through solar energy. While the system powers the facility’s cooling and heating demands, Southland also installed two 2,000 MBH boilers to serve as backups for the solar thermal system in case additional energy is needed. Result Pierce College is the State of California’s first permitted near net-zero facility using the design-build method. The project achieved LEED Gold certification and won the Energy Efficiency Partnership Programs Best Practice Award in 2010 for its substantial energy and CO2 savings. Latitude: 34° 11' 3.584" N Longitude: 118° 34' 47.341" W Popular Recent Department of Veterans Affairs Selects Utility Systems Solutions, Inc. (US2) and Partner Southland Energy for ESPC Contract PHC November Issue Featuring University of the Pacific Project Case Study Awards 2012 DBIA National Merit Award —DBIA National 2011 AEE Innovative Energy Project of the Year Award —Association of Energy Engineers, Southern California Chapter 2010 EEPP Best Practice Award —Energy Efficiency Partnership Programs Downloads Today's Facility Manager March 2013 EEO Affirmation Action Policy FY20 Videos Multi-trade Modular Rack Design and Construction Southland Industries Southern California Campus Recent Work Their Net Zero central plant idea uses a combination of 150 tons of absorption chillers and one 50,000-gallon thermal storage tank. In addition, the design includes 365 solar collector tubing assemblies. This relatively new technology converts the sun energy into hot water. This system is the second installation in the United States. PAUL M. NIEMAN, Director of College, Facilities Pierce College About Southland As one of the nation's largest MEP building systems experts, Southland Industries provides innovative, practical results for your engineering, construction, building systems integration, and energy needs. CONNECT Portals GO CONNECT Internal Portal GO Employee FTP Upload files GO Client Payment Pay your bill online Recent News Southland CEO, Ted Lynch Takes Culture of CARE Pledge Great Place to Work Certifies Southland Industries Southland Energy Appoints Andrew Miller as Regional Business Segment Leader Recent Projects Copyright © 2013 Southland Industries. All rights reserved. Sitemap Terms of Use Privacy Policy