{"id":34840,"date":"2015-06-25T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=34840"},"modified":"2015-08-11T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:52:10","slug":"acc-highland-project-wins-local-state-and-national-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/25\/acc-highland-project-wins-local-state-and-national-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Highland project wins local, state, and national awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College\u2019s Highland Campus continues to receive local, state, and national recognition with three new awards presented in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/14870044897_acd8f347c8_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-34405 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/14870044897_acd8f347c8_z.jpg\" alt=\"14870044897_acd8f347c8_z\" width=\"383\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/14870044897_acd8f347c8_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/14870044897_acd8f347c8_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/14870044897_acd8f347c8_z-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a>The Austin Business Journal awarded Highland Campus with the Commercial Real Estate Overall Best Project award which recognizes projects that take risk to advance, preserve, or positively change the community.<\/p>\n<p>The campus also is recognized for its extraordinary technology winning Campus Technology magazine\u2019s Innovator award.<\/p>\n<p>The American Institute of Architects-Austin (AIA) presented the campus with its Design award which recognizes architectural excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cACC has breathed new life into what was a dead mall,\u201d says Patricia Oliver, AIA judge. \u201cI just think it\u2019s heroic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACC Highland project transformed the former JCPenney department store at Highland Mall into a 214,000 square-foot state-of-the-art center for innovative learning.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34847\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/06\/HLC-Star.png\" alt=\"HLC Star\" width=\"334\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/06\/HLC-Star.png 908w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/06\/HLC-Star-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/06\/HLC-Star-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The campus features learning labs, a library\/media center, and the nation\u2019s largest computer lab, the ACCelerator, featuring more than 600 computer stations for individualized learning.<\/p>\n<p>ACC Highland is the product of collaboration designed and constructed with green building methods to achieve LEED certification.<\/p>\n<p>Partners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lead Developer: RedLeaf Properties<\/li>\n<li>General Contractor: Flintco, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Architect\/Engineer:\u00a0Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects (BGKA)<\/li>\n<li>Landscape Architect: Coleman &amp; Associates<\/li>\n<li>Interior Design: Laukgroup<\/li>\n<li>Civil Engineers: Bury, MWM Design Group<\/li>\n<li>Structural Enginner: Datum Engineers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about ACC Highland visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/highland-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/highland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College\u2019s Highland Campus continues to receive local, state, and national recognition with three new awards presented in recent weeks. The Austin Business Journal awarded Highland Campus with the Commercial Real Estate Overall Best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/06\/25\/acc-highland-project-wins-local-state-and-national-awards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":34405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,15,17,18],"tags":[272,157,50,340,71,144,341],"class_list":["post-34840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-campus-updates","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-official-acc-press-releases","tag-architect","tag-award","tag-design","tag-green-building","tag-highland-campus","tag-highland-mall","tag-leed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}