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Project Type
Education
Location
Los Angeles, California
Project Size
15,000
Date of Completion
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Architect/Client
Pica + Sullivan Architects LTD
John Thomas Dye School Academic Building
Alex Yamada
Senior Project Manager, Retail Development and Construction,
Probity International Corporation
Project Overview
MEP engineering for the John Thomas Dye School Academic Building supports a 15,000-square-foot campus expansion in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California. The project introduces new academic facilities, administrative pavilions, and a hillside-integrated parking structure within an existing school campus.
This ground-up educational development required a coordinated MEP engineering approach to align with architectural intent, site constraints, and campus integration.
Project Scope
MEP engineering design supports a new academic building along with associated campus improvements, including administrative pavilions and a parking structure embedded into the hillside. The academic building incorporates classrooms and learning environments, as well as a green vegetated roof designed to support sustainability and educational opportunities.
The scope required integration of HVAC design, electrical design, and plumbing design within a complex site influenced by challenging geotechnical conditions. Design efforts focused on coordinating systems within a constrained hillside environment while maintaining performance, efficiency, and constructability.
Services
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Design
Highlights
MEP Engineering Highlights
Why Architects Choose Us
- K-12 Education Experience – MEP systems coordinated around classrooms, learning environments, and school campus requirements.
- 15,000 SF Campus Expansion – Engineering supports new academic and associated campus facilities.
- Ground-Up Educational Design – MEP infrastructure integrated with the architecture from the early stages of development.
- Complex Hillside Coordination – Building systems developed around constrained site conditions and changing elevations.
- Hillside-Integrated Parking – Engineering coordinated with a parking structure embedded into the site.
- Green Roof Integration – MEP infrastructure coordinated with the academic building’s vegetated roof.
- Administrative Pavilion Support – Building systems coordinated across academic and administrative components.
- Existing Campus Integration – New infrastructure developed in relation to established school facilities and systems.
- Multidisciplinary Coordination – MEP design responds to architectural, structural, site, and geotechnical constraints.
- Constructability & Maintainability – System layouts consider installation, operational performance, and long-term facility needs.
We collaborate with architects and educational institutions to provide MEP engineering for K-12 schools, private school campuses, classroom buildings, ground-up educational facilities, campus expansions, hillside developments, and sustainable learning environments.
K-12 Education Project Experience
Our team provides MEP engineering for education architects on projects involving:
- New academic buildings
- Private K-12 schools
- Classroom and learning facilities
- Campus expansions
- Administrative buildings and pavilions
- Hillside educational developments
- Parking structures associated with school campuses
- Green and vegetated roof coordination
- Existing campus infrastructure integration
- Ground-up educational construction
