Design-Build of Child Development Center, Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, CA

This Design-Build project was a 12,600 SF child development center for occupancy by 112 children at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, CA. This facility was awarded LEED Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

This child development center aims to accommodate the youngest members of the military community by providing quality, health, safety child care for infants, toddlers and pre-school age children. Thus, the child development center provides well illuminated, active and passive activity areas that accommodate a range of play and organized learning as well as serve the needs of adult staff and parents, and facilitate staff-child relationship building.​

The facility includes lobby, control desk, administrative office, activity rooms, kitchen, laundry, toilets and ancillary storage rooms compliant with UFC. The site development included all site work, site utilities, parking lots, landscape and playgrounds required for the facility. The building includes, but not limited to, providing spaces for child-friendly classrooms with toilets, community space for children and adults, outdoor and indoor play areas, meeting space for adults, administration spaces, clinic, food service space, storage space and toilets. This project also included a covered area/shade structure within the playground area. As well as an uncovered loading area with a paved concrete approach and double doors leading into the kitchen/cafeteria area in order to increase ease and efficiency of deliveries to the CDC. The adjacent streets and adjacent facilities/buildings remained open for operation at all times during construction.