CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Workforce development , the development of students and people to gain skills which enrich and better their lives is the philosophy behind every decision Saville and CPCC make . The obligation bond represents an opportunity to better serve students and the community through state of the art facilities but also to attract and serve more students in the long run .
Structural challenge When designing , planning and beginning construction on a campus with building ages as mixed as CPCC , challenge is inescapable . With demolition and construction taking place on an active college campus , time and safety are is a major issues .
CPCC strives to schedule and complete all construction in conjunction with the timing of semester starts for optimum
“ It ’ s who we are , it ’ s what we do . If our local businesses don ’ t support us then we ’ d be out of business ”
– Vicki Saville , Associate Vice President for Facilities & Construction at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte , North Carolina
efficiencies of contact hours , but Saville also acknowledges that with a county bond comes expectations , and county control . “ Mecklenburg County is our funder and they dictate when they provide the funding to us ,” she says . “ Naturally we aim to avoid clashing with the running of the college programmes , but in new facilities construction it really is dictated by the timing of monies released by the county .”
Another challenge , as with many construction projects across the US , has been inflation and the impact it has had on construction costs . This , unfortunately , has seen CPCC lose 20 percent of its originally stated programmed square footage . This is no more evident than in the new Education Centre , which was originally intended to be eight storeys high but CPCC can now only afford to build five .
“ It really has been cut cut cut and
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