NIC's Parker Tech Ed Center wins award
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 7 years, 11 months AGO
Courtesy photo North Idaho College’s Parker Technical Education Center in Rathdrum’s architects won an outstanding design award for the project.
North Idaho College’s Parker Technical Educational Center in Rathdrum is the recipient of a 2017 Outstanding Project Award by Learning by Design’s Architecture and Interior Design Awards.
Architects West, located in Coeur d’Alene, was architect-of-record for this project.
Learning by Design’s publication is an educational leaders’ guide to architectural services. All projects entered were reviewed and judged by a panel of distinguished education architects, planners, and facility construction and operations professionals.
The 110,960-square-foot Parker Technical Education Center opened its doors to students in September 2016. The center was designed to accommodate eight programs: advanced manufacturing/mechatronics; automotive technology; collision repair technology; CAD technology for architecture and engineering; diesel technology; industrial mechanic/millwright; machining and CNC technology; and welding technology.
The facility was designed to create instructional spaces that focus on students. There are numerous student study/break areas, adjacent to both labs and classrooms, and staff offices are intentionally placed adjacent to labs to encourage student/staff interaction. Designed to be intentionally flexible, the structure’s safe lab spaces reflect the current industrial workplace, and can adapt to future expansion.
The full design team included: Architects West, Opsis Architecture, LSB, Coffman, Trindera and J-U-B Engineers.
Architects West was founded in 1973 and has been specializing in educational facilities since. Today, the firm is employee-owned, with a staff of 30, and performs services for educational, municipal, commercial, religious, medical and multi-family projects in Idaho, Washington, Montana and Oregon.