Site work and new construction of an educational facility in Bellevue, Washington. Working plans call for the construction of a 52,000-square-foot educational facility; and for site work for a educational facility.

As of July 10, 2024, construction documents are expected to be completed by October 2024. An architect has been selected. The anticipated bidding period is January 13, 2025 – February 10, 2025. Construction period is anticipated to be from March 2025 – June 2026. *The closed solicitation has been included below for reference: This Request for Qualifications is for the purpose of selecting an Architect for Design Services for the W Building located at Bellevue, WA. This scope of work includes design services only. This project will be Design-Bid-Build. The W Building will provide approximately 52,000 gross square feet (GSF) of new area to the campus to support enrollment and program expansion. The W building will replace classroom seats lost to program growth in existing buildings and bring the college-wide GSF per oncampus full-time equivalent student (GSF/FTE) to 98 by 2028. This new space will accommodate and promote active teaching and learning techniques. The W Building will simulate real-world industry collaborations and thus will encourage interdisciplinary engagement. To this goal, it will provide flexible labs, classrooms, and a makerspace to facilitate growth in existing programs and in new programs that will be developed in response to industry needs. The building will feature a flexible structural module, which will permit easier adjustments to classrooms and labs. This flexibility will allow the faculty to be innovative in content delivery. The classrooms and labs will be designed for multiple delivery modes including lecture, collaborative, project-based learning, and hybrid models where content is online, and application is in class The preliminary budget for the MACC for this project is $26 million. This project has been approved for design and construction services. Short-listed firms selected and notified Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 Interview Period September 6-7th, 2022 Firm(s) Selected and Announced September 9th, 2022 Agreement(s) Executed September 2022 Estimated Design Estimated 12 months Estimated Permitting Estimated 12-18 months Estimated Construction Estimated 18 - 24 months The Owner and DES have established the following Project Goals: Maximize Scope within the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP). Achieve the most cost effective, creative, operationally efficient, and programmatically balanced project including as much scope as possible under the available project budget. The primary project goals are to construct the Project with the best value to the Owner within the stated budget. Create Flexible Space: The building is intended to be programmatically available for a wide variety of campus needs to allow for flexible learning and the ability to alter Page 2 of 9 interior and exterior learning spaces in accordance with current educational and space needs. Welcome Everyone: The Owner seeks to establish the college as an anti-racist institution and has set a goal to exceed statewide goals for diversity and inclusion. With this objective in mind Bellevue College has set a goal to maximize the level of minority, veteran and women owned business participation in design and construction. Low Maintenance Building: Create a space designed with future maintenance at the forefront of design, long life systems should be specified, as should durable finishes and accessible infrastructure. Produce a project that exceeds the Owners definition of Design Excellence: Create an exceptional and distinctive project that meets the programmatic, functional, operational, and aesthetic vision for each of the Stakeholder programs as well as the Owners campus. The project design must gracefully and simultaneously facilitate the individual programs while providing a cohesive, collaborative, and flexible design. Execute a successful Design/Bid/Build Process to produce the envisioned project: The team will develop and utilize a collaborative relationship with the Owner/DES, and stakeholders to achieve Design Excellence within the Owners/DES budget and schedule using proficient design, project management and construction methods throughout the process. Submitting firms should have a strong background in the innovative design of flexible learning spaces, Industry standard low and high-tech makerspace as well as Interior finishes consistent with the Bellevue College Student Success Center. The project will require, careful design consideration to comply with zoning and set-back requirements for the proposed building location. The initial phase of the project will require collaboration and communication with the City of Bellevues Development Services Department to apply and coordinate any required variances and initial land use requests. Firms should also be well versed in multi-phased State agency construction, the State of Washington capital budget process, planning, life-cycle cost analysis, sustainable design, and the process to achieve LEED Silver or better certification. Firms must disclose any potential conflict of interest or any involvement with client agency staff or associated boards. The method of contractor selection has not been determined at this time.