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NATIONAL EXPOSURE
The Center for Advanced Manufacturing was featured on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on March 1, 2011 as part of a series called America at the Crossroads. This segment delved into the emerging national trend of retraining and retooling workers to learn the new skills needed to succeed in today’s high tech manufacturing industry.
NBC highlighted the partnership between GCTC and MAG Industries of Cincinnati, which provides workers with on-the-job training and classroom instruction through an apprenticeship program.
Advanced Manufacturing
Center
Bluegrass Community & Technical College - Georgetown Campus
Georgetown, Kentucky
OWNER
Kentucky Community & Technical College System
AREA
77,500 GSF
CAPACITY
1,200 Students
SPACE RATIO
60% Technical Programs
40% General Education
STATUS
Completed Spring, 2017
DESIGN DRIVER
Plant Floor Model
Optimizing flexibility, adaptability, and expandability
Advanced Manufacturing Center
Bluegrass CTC - Georgetown, Kentucky Campus
Located in Georgetown, Kentucky, adjacent to Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK), the 80,000 SF Bluegrass CTC Advanced Manufacturing Center is the most plant-like of the three prototypes. Since many of the students will be working within settings very much like this, Omni designed the facility to emulate a real-world plant floor to acclimate the students to the type of environment they will experience in their careers. The open bays also maximize flexibility and adaptability for changes in use and services to occur over time.
Space dividers are accomplished with visually openframed, industrial uni-strut partitions. These frames include services such as power, data, and compressed air. Drop coils are used for overhead electric distribution.
The high-bay design was configured for a continuous hoist beam for the movement of large-scale equipment throughout the plant. Courses in open areas include trouble shooting, robotics, PLCS, industrial electricity, motor controls, alternative energy, CAD/CAM, fluid power, with an emphasis on training employees and interns for TMMK and other regional manufacturers. Other courses include industrial electronics, industrial maintenance, machine structure/mechanical drives/pumps and rigging, Machine tool and die, welding, and metallurgy. The campus also provides support spaces for student services, a learning resource center, and a student lounge.
The building incorporates numerous sustainable design elements recognized by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), including storm water management, ample green space, water efficient fixtures, sustainable building materials, and HVAC systems that promote energy efficiency as well as optimal indoor air quality.
In the layout for BCTC’s Georgetown facility, all of the trainers and full-scale equipment are located in a single high-bay Integrated Manufacturing Center. Faculty offices are intentionally separated from the IMC into an adjacent open-office suite and ancillary classrooms are located on the other side of an atrium that is used for study and informal gathering between classes. Acoustics are managed within the volume of the space, including acoustic roof decking.
Due to noise and level of cleanliness some programs are taught in saddlebag rooms located adjacent to the IMC. These courses include welding, machine tools, CNC, laser cutting, and fabrication.
Design features include clear means of wayfinding and circulation
Spaces are optimized for daylighting and views
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Jefferson Community & Technical College
Louisville, Kentucky
OWNER
Kentucky Community & Technical College System
AREA
52,898 GSF
CONSTRUCTION COST
$12,599,000 (September, 2018), plus demolition
STATUS
Completed Spring, 2020
Design Driver
Plant Floor Model
Urban site; Optimizing flexibility, adaptability, and expandability
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Jefferson CTC - Louisville, Kentucky
As part of Kentucky Education Workforce & Development Cabinet’s Kentucky Work Ready Skills Initiative, Jefferson Community & Technical College (JCTC) constructed an Advanced Manufacturing & Information Technology Center (AMIT), located on a 1.8-acre site located in the South of Broadway (SoBro) neighborhood of Louisville - an area that is undergoing significant revitalization.
Built upon Omni’s past research development of Advanced Manufacturing Center prototypes at Southeast, Gateway, Bluegrass, and Maysville Community and Technical Colleges, Omni adapted and transformed these industrial park models to meet the needs of JCTC in a more urban campus setting. The Advanced Manufacturing & Information Technology Center sits within Louisville’s South of Broadway (SoBro) district, a major downtown revitalization program that also incorporates other urban campuses such as Spalding University and its Egan Leadership Center, also designed by Omni and only a few blocks away. Both sites were ripe for workforce development.
This two-story building incorporates a high-bay area with ten open labs that overlook First Street. The curriculum includes degree, diploma, and certificate programs in the fields of computerized manufacturing and machining, machine tool, industrial maintenance, electrical technology, programmable logic control, information technology, and industrial maintenance technology. The open-bay concept models a plant-floor paradigm that emulates workplace settings found in most regional manufacturing facilities. The expanse of double-height glazed curtainwall features ceramic frit and vertical sunscreens along First Street to provide the transparency to showcase the educational activities within while leveraging daylighting and views outward and minimizing glare.
The partial second floor includes a technology-enhanced active learning (TEAL) classroom and a student collaboration zone that cantilever over and into the high-bay training area, like volumes that shift out of their form. These two pushes + pulls are drawer-like spaces that give occupants an opportunity to view and follow the activities on the plant floor below.
This project included the programming, design and construction administration of that Center, as well as the programming, design and construction administration for the partial renovation of JCTC’s existing Building B on the Jefferson Technical Campus in Louisville.
The AMIT Center is approximately 58,000 GSF in size and was designed, built, and submitted for certification to achieve a minimum rating of LEED Certified.
Condensed Program
Programming for the new Advanced Manufacturing & Information Technology Center became fairly complex because of the many different disciplines involved, and the manner in which the faculty teach in their individual disciplines. Each function was assigned a specific color to make understanding the program a little easier, and all of the information in the program is color-coded accordingly.
The new program is based on three values:
AMIT BUILDING AREA: 50,936 GSF
TARGET EFFICIENCY: 63.9%
NET ASSIGNABLE AREA: 32,584 NSF
EXPANDABLE SITE AREA: 18,000 GSF
In condensed form, the program breaks down as follows:
