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![Click to enlarge, Workmen plant the vegetative roof on Central Carolina Community College’s new 18,000-square-foot Sustainable Technologies Center at the college’s Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro. The Center, scheduled to open for classes in a few months, will house the college’s sustainable programs: biofuels, agriculture, green building/renewable energy, ecotourism, and organic culinary arts. The Center itself will be an example of sustainable building. The roof, planted with sedum, a drought-resistant succulent, will reduce heat radiation, insulate, decrease water run-off, and provide a habitat for birds and insects. The Center, designed by Cherry Huffman Architects, of Raleigh, will receive at least a Gold Level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for energy efficient design and construction. ](/news/storyImages/2010-06-29-853362722.jpg)
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![Click to enlarge, The new 25,000-square-foot Chatham Community Library is nearing completion on the Chatham County Campus of Central Carolina Community College. The facility will be operated by the county but used jointly by the county and college. The building features energy-efficient design, such as the over-hanging convex roof that diffuses sunlight entering the facility and is also part of a rainwater run-off collection system. The Library, designed by Cherry Huffman Architects, of Raleigh, will receive at least a Gold Level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for energy efficient design and construction.](/news/storyImages/2010-06-29-529302390.jpg)
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![Click to enlarge, Central Carolina Community College’s new Siler City Center is well under way on a 41-acre site in the Central Carolina Industrial Park, in Siler City. The 23,322-square-foot Center is scheduled to open in January. It will house classroom, offices, student center, computer and class labs, vocational/industrial training shops, bookstore, and other services. The Center, designed by Hobbs Architects, in Pittsboro, will receive at least a Gold Level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for energy efficient design and construction. ](/news/storyImages/2010-06-29-55045978.jpg)
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Central Carolina Community College’s new Siler City Center is well under way on a 41-acre site ... (more)
![Click to enlarge, Central Carolina Community College’s new 18,000-square-foot Sustainable Technologies Center at the college’s Chatham County Campus, in Pittsboro, features a vegetative roof. The Center, scheduled to open for classes in a few months, will house the college’s sustainable programs: biofuels, agriculture, green building/renewable energy, ecotourism, and organic culinary arts. The Center itself will be an example of sustainable building. The roof, planted with sedum, a drought-resistant succulent, will reduce heat radiation, insulate, decrease water run-off, and provide a habitat for birds and insects. The Center, designed by Cherry Huffman Architects, of Raleigh, will receive at least a Gold Level certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for energy efficient design and construction. ](/news/storyImages/2010-06-29-59007771.jpg)
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06.29.2010 • College & Community • Facilities/Buildings
- Sustainable Technologies Center
The 18,000-square-foot, Sustainable Technologies Center will allow for the expansion of the campus’ sustainability programs, housing the classrooms and laboratories for the biofuels, green building/renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and culinary arts programs. The construction cost is about $4.5 million, with an additional $600,000 for design/engineering and contingency.
The building itself will offer students a real-time example of sustainable building design and operations. Among its features will be a low-maintenance vegetative roof of sedum, a drought-resistant succulent. This will reduce heat radiation, provide insulation, decrease the flow of water run-off, and create a habitat for birds and insects.
Environmentally friendly recycled, rapidly renewable, locally harvested or manufactured materials, as well as new wood from a sustainably managed forest, are used in both the Center and the Library buildings. - Chatham Community Library
The 25,000-square-foot Chatham Community Library is costing about $5.5 million to build, with about another $2.1 million for design and engineering, furnishings, equipment, road improvements, and contingency. It will be a joint facility, serving as Chatham County’s main library but also used by the college.
Large areas of glass on an exterior wall maximize the use of natural daylighting, while the over-hanging convex roof design diffuses the sunlight entering the building. The floor tiles can be removed, providing flexibility in the location of heating/air conditioning vents and electrical outlets. There are no air ducts; a computer controls the flow of air through the open space beneath the floor.
The Friends of the Library have raised more than $750,000 for furniture, collections and other enhancements to the facility. Artwork by community members will add important aesthetics, including two ethanol-fueled fireplaces and a wrought-iron gate for the entrance to the children’s section.
Louis Cherry, of Cherry Huffman Architects, in Raleigh, designed both the Sustainable Technologies Center and the Chatham Community Library. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. The contractor is Barnhill Contracting Company, of Tarboro. - Siler City Center
The college plans a major expansion of its workforce and adult education programs in western Chatham County with the new 23,322-square-foot Siler City Center located on a 41-acre site in the industrial park on Highway 64 West.
The college has been holding its classes in the former Henry B. Siler Elementary School since 1984. The Center is costing $4.2 million to build, with another $1.4 million for equipment, design and engineering, and contingency. It will house classroom, offices, student center, computer and class labs, vocational/industrial training shops, bookstore, and other services. The Siler City Center will be one of the few college centers in North Carolina located in an industrial park.
G. Taylor Hobbs III, of Hobbs Architects, in Pittsboro, designed the Siler City Center. He is a LEED Accredited Professional. The contractor is Monteith Corp., of Montrose.
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