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Project Type
Education
Location
West Hollywood, California
Project Size
39,000 square feet
Date of Completion
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Architect/Client
Gruen Associates
Center for Early Education
Alex Yamada
Senior Project Manager, Retail Development and Construction,
Probity International Corporation
Project Overview
A 39,000-square-foot upper school campus within a dense urban environment in Southern California. The project establishes a prototype for integrating educational facilities into constrained sites while maintaining high-quality learning environments.
This multi-story educational facility combines academic, recreational, and specialty spaces, requiring a coordinated MEP engineering approach to support diverse program needs within a compact footprint.
Project Scope
MEP engineering design supports a four-story school building with below-grade parking, including classrooms for grades 4 through 6, a semi-circular library, a multi-purpose gymnasium/auditorium, and specialty classrooms for music, art, science, and computers.
The project also includes elements of campus-wide master planning, including renovation and reconfiguration of existing facilities, as well as integration of new buildings on adjacent sites. The scope required coordination of HVAC design, electrical design, and plumbing design to support varied educational uses while adapting to tight site constraints and vertical building conditions.
Services
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Design
Highlights
Why Architects Choose Us
- K-12 Education Experience – MEP systems coordinated around classrooms, specialty learning environments, and student-focused facilities.
- 39,000 SF Urban Campus – Engineering supports a substantial educational program within a constrained site.
- Four-Story Vertical School – MEP distribution coordinated through multiple levels and a compact footprint.
- Specialty Classroom Coordination – Infrastructure supports music, art, science, and computer learning environments.
- Library Integration – Building systems coordinated with a distinctive semi-circular library.
- Gymnasium/Auditorium Design – MEP infrastructure responds to flexible recreation and assembly functions.
- Below-Grade Parking – Building services coordinated between parking and educational areas above.
- Campus Master Planning – Engineering supports the relationship between existing facilities and new development on adjacent sites.
- Existing & New Building Integration – MEP planning considers renovation, reconfiguration, and campus expansion.
- Architectural Coordination – Building systems developed around tight urban-site and vertical-building constraints.
We collaborate with architects and educational institutions to provide MEP engineering for K-12 schools, urban campuses, classrooms, libraries, science and technology spaces, arts facilities, gymnasiums, auditoriums, and campus modernization projects.
K-12 Education Project Experience
Our team provides MEP engineering for education architects on projects involving:
- K-12 school campuses
- Urban educational facilities
- Elementary and upper schools
- Classroom buildings
- Science and computer classrooms
- Music and art spaces
- School libraries
- Gymnasiums and auditoriums
- Campus renovations and master planning
- Multi-story educational facilities
