College of Marin Kentfield Maintenance and Operations

Workshops, Conveniently Consolidated

The College of Marin at Kentfield needed a new Maintenance and Operations facility where college staff could work smarter and more efficiently.

Strategically located where an old baseball field once stood – and constrained by a natural waterway – the site provides a central location easily accessible to the entire campus. Newly planted trees complement the waterway as well as provide for the site a visual and acoustic buffer from a nearby residential neighborhood.

With this project, the challenge was consolidating many disparate Maintenance and Operations departments, along with campus police into a cogent group of buildings that form a new college service area of the Kentfield campus.

The use of prefabricated steel buildings saved construction time, cost, and energy use – While brightly colored accents kept the building’s facade lively and upbeat. Large windows provide abundant natural light throughout the facility – warehouse included – with the main office spaces enjoying views of the majestic Mt. Tamalpais.

The buildings sit on a four-foot-tall concrete base that serves a dual-purpose – To survive the location’s periodic flooding, as well as provide a natural loading dock for the warehouse and shop functions.

With these new buildings, the College of Marin at Kentfield now has the modern facility that its staff needed to take full advantage of their potential for productivity.