MEP ENGINEERING | TECHNOLOGY | LEED | COMMISSIONING | ENERGY

K-12 New Campuses, LEED & Sustainable Design
Sonia M. Sotomayor Learning Academies

client
LAUSD
architects
HMC Architects
year
2010
scale
220,000 SF
construction-budget
$230,834,494

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Project Summary

This AIA award winning campus has Five Learning Academies that include classrooms, science labs, and academy administration.

Shared facilities include performing arts classrooms, a library, multi-purpose room, two gymnasiums, food service and lunch shelter, central administration, playfields, and surface parking. In addition, a 6,000 SF stand-alone Science Center Building with two science labs to house a Career Technical Education program, a Green House, and Solar PV system were added in the second phase.

The project achieved the highest CHPS score for high schools in the program to the date with a CHPS Score of 42. Lighting Design over performed the Title 24 requirement by 50%. It was also LEED Gold Certified.