WEST VALLEY COLLEGE DISTRICT FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE

The building has operable windows, exterior louvers, solatubes, ceiling fans, and utilizes concrete masonry units (CMUs) as a part of an integrated passive system. This system promotes daylighting and natural ventilation that are coupled with efcient MEP systems creating a building that is 42% better than the LEED® benchmark for energy cost. The durability, thermal mass properties, and cost efciency of CMU provides both structure and skin (block exposed on interior typically) which made it an ideal material for this locally funded 
project. The CMU walls are a 4” x 16” burnished block with a vertical score at the center in a stacked pattern.