Sierra Joint Community College District’s Sierra College New Instructional Building was honored with a 2024 Design-Build Award from the Design-Build Institute of America Western Pacific Region (DBIA-WPR) during the annual awards event held on May 23 in Sacramento, California.

Located in Rockland, California, Sierra College has served the surrounding community since 1936. The HMC Architects + Balfour Beatty design-build team created over 75,000 SF of innovative spaces, including classrooms for the applied arts, fashion, and art departments, lecture rooms, computer labs, gallery spaces, offices, and a lounge area for students to hang out, and a small café. The building is next to the new parking garage, and many students are expected to take advantage of it and its large outdoor plaza. Crafted as a dynamic canvas flooded with natural light, deliberate transparency, and sustainable materials, the new facility promises to enrich the learning experiences of countless students for generations to come.

The DBIA-WPR annual awards program recognizes the successful application of design-build best practices as defined by the DBIA Design-Build Manual of Practice. To learn more, visit DBIA-WPR’s website.