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 Hartford Job Corps
ARCHITECT
DU BOSE ASSOCIATES, INC. ARCHITECTS
49 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT 06105
www.dbarch.com
Location:
Hartford, Connecticut
CHILD
CARE BUILDING
Total Square Feet:
6,075
ADMINISTRATION/WELLNESS
CENTER
Total Square Feet:
8,600
CAFETERIA
Total Square Feet:
7,730
DORMITORY
Total Square Feet:
29,458
HEAVY
VOCATIONAL BUILDING
Total Square Feet:
6,872
LIGHT
VOCATIONAL BUILDING
Total Square Feet:
13,779
RECREATIONAL
BUILDING
Total Square Feet:
11,300
WAREHOUSE
Total Square Feet:
3,800
Construction Period:
Jan 2004 to May 2005
CONSTRUCTION TEAM
STRUCTURAL/MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL ENGINEER: BJFW, Inc. - 21 Ensign Drive, Avon Park North, Avon, CT 06001
CIVIL ENGINEER: URS Corporation - 500 Enterprise Drive, #3B, Rocky Hill, CT 06067
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Lawrence Brunoli, Inc. - 11 East View Drive, Farmington, CT 06034
GENERAL CONTRACTOR (DORMITORY): Rand Jones - 18 Tracy Street, Buffalo, NY 14201
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: To Design - 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06105
The U. S. Department of Labor runs a nationwide program of job training for American youth in Job Corps Training Facilities that incorporate classrooms, shops, residential buildings, recreation facilities, offices, healthcare centers, and dining halls. These self-contained environments are aimed at training students who may not have been successful in a traditional academic high school program or who have graduated from high school and seek vocational training for a variety of career paths.
Hartford was selected for a new eight building, 87,000-square-foot-facility by the Department of Labor on 23 acres of land. The Department of Labor wanted to provide productive skills to the City's youth who do not successfully complete high school. It is important to have students feel that they are part of a "community of learners" and the campus setting is a key to creating that sense of community, as well as fostering a post-high school atmosphere in which students are expected to act as responsible and independent young adults.
As a "hands-on" type-training environment, the use of a somewhat industrial palate of materials was chosen as an appropriate idiom. The materials needed to be durable and cost-effective. The eight building campus of primarily one story structures (the dormitory is the only two story building) was built of concrete block and metal wall panels. Sloped insulated metal roofing panels were used at the main entrance. Operations by Educational Management Corporation began in the Fall of 2005.
MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS
DIV 07: Corrugated Metal Siding: Metecno-Morin: Insulated Metal Siding:
Metecno-Aluma
Shield; EPDM: Johns Manville.
DIV 08: Aluminum Windows, Entrances & Storefronts: EFCO
Corporation; Fabrication & Installation: Commercial Storefront Services; Translucent Wall Panels: Kalwall.
DIV 09: Acroxyn Wall Panels: CS Group; VCT: Armstrong; Rubber Flooring: Ecosurfaces(R) by Dodge Regupol; Carpet: Patcraft; Quarry Tile: Summitville.
DIV 10: Operable Partitions: Moderco.
CHILD
CARE
BUILDING
ADMINISTRATION/WELLNESS
CENTER
CAFETERIA
DORMITORY
HEAVY
VOCATIONAL BUILDING
LIGHT
VOCATIONAL BUILDING
RECREATIONAL
BUILDING
WAREHOUSE
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