Abstract The Tustin Unified School District is at the forefront of educational curricula with a complete commitment to collective learning, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The challenge; design a campus that can accommodate advancements in education and technology and create a facility that will house emerging instructional strategies and technological innovations to help educate the entrepreneurial leaders of tomorrow.
Planning Process The project began with a cutting edge educational specification. The concepts outlined within this document aimed to create a campus that establishes interactive collaborative spaces, which implement Technology-Innovation-Design- Entrepreneurship (T.I.D.E.). The education experience is no longer confined to classroom walls, students will have the ability to collaborate as groups or study independently, campus wide. Following this new educational model, a highly collaborative planning process ensued. A design committee was formed that included representatives from school administrators, staff, and teachers within the district as well as the project architects. The topic of budget was consistently at the discussion table. A construction management firm worked in parallel with the design team through collaborative preconstruction processes, extracting analytical data from the projects BIM software. This provided instantaneous feedback to the design team on cost, material quantities, scheduling, and overall design audits.