San Jacinto College Officials Tour Alamo College Facilities

NLC Visit from San Jacinto College

Construction officials and science faculty department chairs from San Jacinto College in Houston visited two of the Alamo Colleges to research buildings that were part of the Colleges’ 2005 Capital Improvements Project. The San Jacinto contingent toured the science buildings at Northeast Lakeview College and Northwest Vista College with a representative of Facility Programming and Consulting.

Facility Programming and Consulting, a small business that works in architectural project definition and planning needs, was instrumental in launching the 2005 Capital Improvements Program at Alamo Colleges by providing architectural programming, master planning support, space utilization study, design standards, education standards, project definition, laboratory planning and strategic space planning.

These processes precede any actual architectural plans or construction of any sort and are the result of meetings with the end users of the buildings being planned.

According to Bryan Sibille, project manager Facility Programming, San Jacinto College is preparing to launch a capital improvement program similar to the Alamo Colleges’ 2005 effort. “Alamo Colleges’ CIP is an exemplary and impressive project,” said Sibille. “That these very well built buildings are all open is very notable, given the short time period for the construction.”

Facility Programming has provided architectural programming expertise in San Antonio to Haven for Hope, Emergency Operations Center City of San Antonio and Bexar County, CPS Energy, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the music facilities renovation at San Antonio Independent School District and for a new middle school at St. Luke’s Episcopal School, among others.

They also programmed the new student activity center at The University of Texas at Austin and the new classroom building program at the University of Houston Downtown.

According to Facility Programming, their work approach is to seek out and define a problem before attempting to solve it, an investment that can pay huge dividends over the life of an architectural project.
John W. Strybos, associate vice chancellor for facilities at the Alamo Colleges, characterized Facility Programming as doing an exceptional job in setting our entire CIP project in motion.