ACC Project Manager: Paul Mason, 223-1008
Architect/Engineer: Graeber, Simmons & Cowan, Inc.
Construction Manager at Risk: Spawglass Contractors, Inc.
Status:
ACC is undertaking the most ambitious project in its 35 year history with the construction of a new “ground up” campus on a Greenfield site in far north Round Rock, Texas. The project is located on 60-90 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to the existing Texas State Round Rock Higher Education Center (RRHEC) and Seton Hospital Williamson. Texas A&M is also constructing a new Health Sciences campus just southeast of our site, which will be part of a larger 1,000+ acre master planned development called Avery Center.
The Master Planning phase has been completed. The micro-programming phase should also be completed by mid October. The Schematic Design process has begun and we will be reviewing floor plans and elevations shortly with all ACC departments. The design phases will continue after that with an anticipated ground breaking in the first quarter of 2009. The campus will open in the fall of 2010.
MASTER PLAN SUMMARY REPORT LINK
Master Plan – Phase One
Phase one includes five new buildings: 1) Student Services, Campus Administration and Library Building, 2) General Studies Building, 3) Health Sciences Building, 4) Applied Technology Building, and 5) Central Utility Plant (CUP). The buildings total 250,000 gross square feet and will accommodate 5,000 students. 1,260 parking spaces will also be provided.
The buildings are arranged to create pedestrian only malls which vary in formality and provide many opportunities to spend time outdoors. This will truly feel like a college campus and the plan has given a lot of thought as to how future buildings will fill in the blanks to eventually shape the final campus.
A perimeter internal loop driveway will provide access to CR 112, which runs along the entire length of the eastern property boundary from two access points, one north and the other south. Parking lots are arranged along the length of the loop driveway, which wraps around the outside of all the buildings to preserve the inner pedestrian core of the campus. Parking is thereby equally distributed around all the buildings to reduce traveling distance from cars to buildings. The parking lots will also be arranged into smaller lot, using landscaped swales to break up the large expanses of paving. Utilities will be run in an easement under the loop road and taken to the CUP. From the CUP all utilities will be fed to the buildings underneath the pedestrian malls.
Master Plan – Final Plan
The Final plan accommodates significant growth opportunities for the campus including the addition of future buildings: 1) Building addition to the Student Services, Campus Administration and Library Building, 2) Second Health Sciences Building, 3) Expansion to the Applied Technology Building, 4) Future General Studies Buildings (two buildings), 5) Expansion to the CUP and 6) New Building & Grounds Maintenance Facility. The future buildings will add an additional 325,000 gross square feet of space and accommodate an additional 6,500 students. The campus would thus total 575,000 gross square feet and 11,500 student capacity. Parking would be increased to slightly more than 2,900 spaces.
Please check back for future updates. We will post the conceptual building elevations soon.
