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– Brian Faber , Project Manager

in CUSD to campus to study Pomona College ’ s collection up close . Since 2013 , the museum has offered classroom lessons , directed activities during collection visits , and postvisit classroom lessons to more than 1,200 third-graders . The new facility is specifically designed to host these programs and will allow the museum to expand its outreach to other grade levels and school districts , with a special focus on Title 1 schools .

The construction project started with the appointment of two worldclass architectural firms , Machado & Silvetti and Gensler , their brief to align the art of architecture with the functional and programmatic requirements of a 21st-century accredited academic museum . The general contractor , working under a gross material price ( GMP ) contract , is Hathaway Dinwiddie . The museum began to take shape in February 2018 , when the first two concrete walls – about 70 % of the main gallery – were poured , and two gang forms set up for the third and fourth walls . The basement walls also were fortified and waterproofed . The mass excavation and on-site work on utilities , sewer and electricity were completed , and water and fire services for the museum installed by the Golden State Water Company .

Most of the building , around 80 %, is cast-in place concrete walls , a linear board-formed concrete with

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