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College to break new ground
BY JAMES HARLEY
As th e H arm ony Cam pus prep ares to
finish its brand new building, the Oregon
City Campus at Clackam as Com m unity
College prepares for its own new building,
and a big change.
In November of 2014, the college passed
a $90 million bond measure to update and
expand college classrooms and labs. The
first phase, w hich is currently underway,
re p lace d a 6 1 - y e a r -o ld te c h n o lo g y
bu ild in g on th e H arm ony Cam pus to
expand health science. The second phase,
which is set to start this spring, is to build
a brand new Industrial Technical Center
at the Oregon City Campus.
The ITC building w ill be built near the
track, in front of the current tennis courts.
The project w ill also include a rem odel
of th e parking lot behind Barlow Hall.
The tennis courts w ill close at the end of
spring term , officially on April 1.
The new structure is set to be a state-
o f- t h e - a r t , tw o -s to r y b u ild in g th a t
e sse n tially expands and upgrades th e
current Barlow facility.
The college p lan s to b rin g m ost o f
th e m anufacturing techn ology classes
to th e new building from Barlow hall.
The n ew ITC bu ild in g w ill have m ore
machining space, two computer labs, five
Classrooms, a flexable lab and renewable
energy learning space.
The ITC building, which for now is just a
placeholder name, is going to have much
more space than what is currently in Barlow.
“These programs are using about 14,000
square feet of space in Barlow right now,”;
said Mike M attson, the department chair
of manufacturing. The new building w ill
have about 44,424 square feet.
M attson also talked about the current
cramped conditions in Barlow.
“ If you go down in the m achine shop
right now, you ’d see that w e are elbow
to elbow . You have to craw l th rou gh
m achines just to get to the bathroom ,”
Mattson said. “ The space down there now
was never designed as a machine shop,
it w as a diesel shop w hen the building
w as origin ally b u ilt and retrofitted . It
was never designed to do what it is doing
right now .”
W ith a larger new building, there w ill
also be more space for students to learn
in the classroom.
“ Our biggest classroom right now is about
525 square feet,” said Mattson. “All of the
classrooms in the new building will be about
1,000 square feet. People were dragging
chairs in, and people w ere crowding in
corners without a desk to sit at.”
W ith the added space, there w ill also be
new, h igh -en d equipm ent for students
to access.
“We partnered with Gosiger,” said Lori
Hall, the public inform ation officer at
CCC. “ They h ave la r g e b ig equipm ent
that they didn’t have a space to showcase
it, So we let them use our space, and in
exchange our students get to train oh
state-of-the-art equipment that they can
know w hen they go out and get a job.”
“ O u r biggest classroom
rig h t n o w is about 525
square fee t...P eo ple
were dragging chairs
in , and people were
crowding in corners
w ithout a desk to sit a t.”
-M ik e M a tts o n
A ccordin g to Bob C ochran, dean o f
Cam pus S ervices at C lackam as, each
photo contributed by Clackamas Community College
Above Is a rendering of the entrance of the proposed ITC building. The college plans to break ground on April 6.
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