Columbus State Community College
Academic Building E
Delaware, Ohio

A new 88,000 SF educational building that will include classrooms, offices, computer labs, science labs, and gathering space featuring multi-level lighting control, video conferencing, distance learning classrooms, and audio visual telecommunications.

The building will also feature environmentally friendly air conditioning refrigerant, high efficiency, low-flow water closets and urinals to conserve water, reflective roof to minimize cooling requirements, low-emitting materials to improve indoor air quality, daylight harvesting, higher efficiency lighting to reduce energy costs, and occupancy sensors. Sustainable site features include vegetated bioswales which capture stormwater from parking lots and rooftops. The bioswales promote clarification and infiltration of stormwater by use of specific plant material and topsoil mixture. Stormwater that exits the bioswales is routed to a regional water quality/retention lake that serves the entire campus. The lake contains both deep water and shallow water areas to encourage both plant and animal diversity. Shallow water areas are planted with native wetland species to further promote stormwater quality through infiltration and transpiration.