Riverland Community College

15kW

Photovoltaic Array

50000

SF Facility

Transportation, Trade + Industrial Education Center

This project demolishes, renovates, and expands the school to create classrooms, laboratory space, truck driving range, and new accessible rear entry. The project centrally locates its transportation career fields under one roof and includes diesel, automotive services, automotive technologies, welding, robotics, solar installer, truck driving, and collision repair.
The project makes a more modern learning environment and relocates the truck driving program from Austin to Albert Lea. The new diesel shop has space for farm equipment and larger vehicles into the shop through a 30’-wide door. A truck driving range allows for mutual work between the diesel and truck driving programs. The automotive program adds angled parking, a new alignment machine, and seven vehicle lifts.

Dunham provided mechanical and electrical engineering services for the renovation and addition that totals approximately 48,000 SF of program space. A small portion of the building renovation and expansion included a two-story in-fill space for additional support space. Low voltage system design includes smart classroom wiring with voice/data, security, cameras, network cabling, and fire alarm.