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Mock up for Building 7 at Rock Creek

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The construction crew built this mock up structure to provide information about the physical separation between the interior and exterior environments of the actual buiding and test the glass material for the front of the building.

This mock up structure provides information about Building 7’s “envelope” – the barrier that separates the interior of a building from the outdoor environment.

April 1, 2013
Written by Gina Whitehill-Baziuk

People walking around the construction fencing at Rock Creek Campus may have spotted a “mini-Building 7” on the south side of the site.

Earlier this year, Fortis Construction, with help from PCC students, built a construction mock up of Building 7 to provide the architect?(OPSIS architecture), the contractor and the college to see a full-scale representation of the materials that will be used on the project. ?In this case, it was the brick and metal panels intended to match the other buildings on the Rock Creek campus.

To provide campus stakeholders information about the structure, Rock Creek campus and the Bond Program developed signage to inform people about how the mock up structure will be used.

Signage was installed at the site to provide campus stakeholders information about the purpose of the mock up structure and how it will be used.

This mock up also includes a section of the glass feature wall with a basket-weave pattern of applied graphics (called a frit pattern) and glass units where paint has been applied to the back surface of the unit (called a spandrel panel). ?All of these elements will be part of the new Building 7 addition.

Mock ups are also intended to demonstrate the constructability of the architectural details and to assist the contractor in understanding potential? problem areas where various subcontractor trades (the mason, the framer the glazier) are working in close proximity to each other.

PCC’s?2008 voter-approved?$374 million bond program is increasing opportunities for residents to access quality, affordable higher education close to where they live and work. Additional classrooms, updated equipment and technology, and advanced workforce training programs are helping?to pave the way for future employment options. For more information, visit?www.pcc.edu/about/bond/about.