As a part of its effort to limit unemployment in Atlanta, Georgia, the Department of Labor Jobs Corps invested $42 million into a new Jobs Corps campus and Pruitt Eberly Stone, Inc. (PES) was selected to provide structural design services.   This center trains unemployed individuals and gives them tangible training and skills for the national workforce.  PES created designs in BIM (Revit) format with an LOD of 300 for numerous buildings across the campus including:

• 54,000 sq. ft. for the Education Building
• 8,000 sq. ft. for the Administration Building
• 30,000 sq. ft. for the Recreation Building;
• 20,000 sq. ft. for the Cafeteria and Culinary Arts Building
• 6,000 sq. ft. for the Child Development Center
• 60,000 sq. ft. for the Dormitory and multiple student services buildings

PES balanced communication with its client, The Architecture Group and the immense internal teamwork required for creating design services for twelve individual buildings.  The result was a model that provided an energy savings of 30% above current energy code and satisfied the clients’ request for the vocational training facility.