Student Success Center - Collaborative Design-Build

The contract is for the Student Success Center Project at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which involves a collaborative design-build process. The project aims to create a professional development center for career services, student diversity and belonging cultural centers, and programs that support Cal Poly's growing first-generation and diverse student body. The scope of the project includes 25,000 to 40,000 square feet of new construction and potential renovation of an existing 13,000 square foot building. The project goals include emphasizing career and personal development, providing increased visibility for career programming, and creating space for students to gather, collaborate, and study. The contract was awarded through a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process, and the shortlisted firms are BNBuilders, Hensel Phelps, Truebeck Construction, and Whiting-Turner. • The project will feature a professional development center for career services • The project will include student diversity and belonging cultural centers • The project will provide programs that support Cal Poly's growing first-generation and diverse student body • The project will add formal and informal activity space • The project will add new university lecture rooms to support the university's planned growth of enrollment and on-campus population • The project will encompass all necessary utility infrastructure and construct landscape/hardscape improvements adjacent to the building