Los Angeles Trade-Technology College (LATTC) has broken ground for the school’s Construction Technology Building on a long-empty property at the corner of 23rd Street and Grand Avenue. The building is designed for three stories, and features 180,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratories, and offices dedicated to LATTC’s construction maintenance and utilities programs.

HMC Architects designed the contemporary low-rise structure featuring a red brick exterior, similar to the Johnson Favaro-designed Student Services and Technology Instruction Buildings. Bernards is the general contractor.

The project is expected to cost approximately $188 million, a number that has grown from original estimates in large part to design changes resulting from updates to the California building code, though tariffs affecting imported steel and aluminum were also cited as having a minor impact.

The Construction Technology Building is one of two new facilities now rising at the LATTC campus; the other being the school’s $48-million Culinary Arts Building.

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