Santa Rosa Junior College Culinary Arts Center

Project Manager: Bryan Wright
Estimator: Rick Grossmann
Superintendent: Scott Thomas

The first and only professional culinary training program in Sonoma County the new 22,000 square foot, two-story structure is scheduled for completion this winter.  Wright Contracting is the Construction Managers for this project which will be our sixth major project completed for the Junior College over the last 10 years.  Some of the features of the new center include a dining room and demonstration kitchen, teaching kitchens, classrooms, dining and wine education area, student lobby, production bakery, retail bakery, public cafe and restaurant.   Included in these areas is a wine library, pizza oven, ice creamery and chocolate bar.   The grounds will include a parking lot for cafe customers, patio seating area and outdoor barbecue.   Utilizing long lasting building materials to achieve what is termed the 100 year building, this project is part of the Junior Colleges sustainable strategy being practiced with all new campus facilities.  Layering in additional green cost effective building materials such as recycled carpet and energy conservation systems aimed at a ten percent below standard energy consumption for a typical building will help minimize the centers energy footprint.  Building Information Modeling (BIM) was extremely useful during the Mechanical/Electrical and Plumbing construction given the massive amount of elements from those trades needed careful coordination.