Child Development Center

Cost: $9.3 million
24,100 sq. ft.
Architect: Harley Ellis Devereaux

The district will construct, furnish and equip a new child development center. This facility will centralize all child development programs at Santa Ana College in state-of-the-art classrooms, labs and support areas. The new child development center will become the primary point of service for student child care needs, and will serve as the primary instructional facility for students seeking a career in human development.

SAC Master Plan

Child Development Center - CEC

Cost: $500,000
3,000 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.

The district will renovate the interior workspace of the Centennial Education Center (CEC) Child Development Center. The renovated child development center will enhance student child care needs, and will serve as the primary instructional facility for students seeking a career in human development.

CEC Map

Digital Media Center

Cost: $12.7 million
28,000 sq. ft.
Architect: Arquitectonica
Construction Manager: C.W. Driver
Contractor: Bernards

The DMC, a 28,000-square-foot facility, is an innovative state-of-the-art facility created through a unique collaboration of Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD), Santa Ana College (SAC), City of Santa Ana, and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. The DMC features a business incubator for start-up companies, instructional space for SAC’s digital media arts, TV/video production and digital music pro​grams. The facility also houses the Public Service Institute (PSI), a collection of business seminars related to the digital media and business industries, offered through SAC’s Business Division. The DMC also received funding from two outside sources with an acre of land being donated by the City of Santa Ana and a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Exercise Science Locker Room Complex - Women's Locker Room

Cost: $¬15.4 million
22,000 sq. ft.
Architect: IBI/Blurock
Construction Manager: C.W. Driver

This unique 22,000-square-foot building replaces the college’s age-old former locker rooms and serves some 5,100 students annually in more than 170 courses and student-athletes in the college’s 21 intercollegiate teams. The new complex includes men’s and women’s locker rooms, team classrooms and conference rooms, equipment storage and distribution areas, and faculty offices.  The exercise science facility renovations also included remodeling the training room, converting a portion of the gymnasium into a strength training lab and constructing a new weightlifting pavilion. Rounding out the building’s amenities is the Homer Beatty Football Locker Room.

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Infrastructure Renovation

Cost: $¬15 million
Architect: LPA, Inc.

This ongoing project will renovate and upgrade the utility infrastructure at Santa Ana College. The multi-phase infrastructure renovation will include the replacement of deteriorated electrical and data distribution systems, improvements to campus lighting, upgrades to potable water systems, safety hazard mitigation, improvements to signage, and repairs to sewage and storm drain systems. Infrastructure renovations will also result in improvements to handicapped access to facilities, campus landscape, and will improve vehicular and pedestrian access and circulation. The college physical plant operations facilities will also be improved and relocated.

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Library Renovation

Cost: $1.7 million
40,500 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.
Construction Manager: C.W. Driver

The Santa Ana College library underwent an extreme makeover receiving new interior paint, new flooring, restroom renovations and upgrades to the lighting and data communications systems to modernize the facility. New furniture and equipment provided for the library area, classrooms, labs and support areas have enhance the learning experience for students.

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Sheriff's Academy

Cost: $30.2 million
52,000 sq. ft.
Architect: gkkworks
Contractor: Bernards

This 52,000-square-foot facility was constructed by Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) on 15 acres at the former Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin on land conveyed to the district by the City of Tustin. At the site, Santa Ana College, in partnership with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD), provides Peace Officer Standards on Training (POST) certified instruction through its Law Enforcement Basic Academy, as well as advanced officer training. The new state-of-the-art facility also serves all Orange County law enforcement agencies and functions as a regional training center bringing together local and federal agencies to train and collaborate in law enforcement and homeland security matters. The new Orange County Sheriff’s Regional Training Academy can accommodate 800 students annually, as compared to a previous instructional capacity of about 300.

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Humanities | Athletics | Aquatics | Campus Entry

Cost: $51.6 million*

Humanities Building and Site Improvements
97,500 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.

Athletics and Aquatics Complex
72,200 sq. ft.
Architects: The Austin Company

Santiago Canyon College will construct two new structures on a campus, a Humanities building and an Athletics and Aquatics Complex that will include a gymnasium, locker room and support space. This project will also include improvements including a new parking lot and entry from Santiago Canyon Road, a new campus entry from Chapman Avenue with roadway and expansion of the Library parking lot, and the reconfiguration of the campus Loop Road to align with the new parking lot and to prepare a building pad for the future Student Services Building.

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Learning Resource Center

Cost: $15 million
40,000 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.
Construction Manager: Barnhart Inc.
Contractor: Taisei Construction Corporation

The 40,000-square-foot facility features a high-tech, two-story, environmentally–friendly design with space to accommodate 100,000 books. It offers thirteen group study rooms, a bibliographic instruction lab, over seventy-five computer workstations and a copy, print and self-check out station.   Special collections include careers, play scripts, best sellers, French language, local history and children’s literature.  Magazines, journals and newspapers are available in print and electronic database formats.

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Orange Education Center

Cost: $24.2 million
92,500 sq. ft.
Architect: gkkworks
Construction Manager: Barnhart Inc.

The new 92,500-square-foot model facility is equipped with 21 classrooms, two high-tech computer labs, an older adult/parenting classroom, a meeting room that accommodates over 150 people, a child development center and an instructional learning center with 50 computer stations.

The center serves as the hub of the Santiago Canyon College’s Continuing Education Division which provides free, non-credit classes to the community in adult basic education, citizenship, English as a Second Language, business and computer skills, high school completion, older adult program, and parent education. The center also includes the district’s warehouse and publications departments.

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Science Center

Cost: $31 million*
60,000 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.
Construction Manager: Seville Construction Services

This facility will be a combined state and bond-funded project, and will include a wide variety of classrooms, labs, support service areas for instruction in the natural and physical sciences, as well as a tiered lecture hall.

* $21 million for the center’s construction comes from Measure E.

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Student Services Building

​Cost: $8.1 million
30,000 sq. ft.
Architect: LPA, Inc.
Construction Manager: Barnhart Inc.
Contractor: The Richardson Group

This was the first permanent new building constructed on the college campus in over a decade and features ten classrooms and a number of faculty offices. The building also simplifies student services by housing many of the college’s core functions including admissions and records, financial aid, the cashier’s office and disabled students programs and services (DSPS) under one roof.

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Dunlap Hall Renovation

Construction began in June 2014 to replace the aging guard rails around the pedestrian walkways on all building levels and included a new elevator tower along with a new main staircase. Existing restrooms were remodeled to increase fixtures and correct accessibility compliance deficiencies. The Dunlap Hall Renovation was completed in November 2015. Dunlap Hall was re-occupied in January 2016 for the start of Spring Semester 2016.​

Budget: $12.62 million

Johnson Student Center

The construction of the new Johnson Student Center building began in December 2018. This 63,642 square foot facility houses a variety of student life and student support service offices, as well as a campus bookstore, Quick Stop/café, The Spot, a conference center, Health and Wellness Center, mailroom and reprographics services.  New site improvements include new landscape, hardscape, outdoor seating, a shade structure and a serving kiosk for the college on the west side of the new student center. The Grand Opening of the new Johnson Student Center took place on July 27, 2021. ​

​Budget: $59.55 million

Johnson Student Center Virtual Exterior Walk

Johnson Student Center Virtual Interior Walk

Science Center & Building​s J Demolition

Demolition of the J Buildings was completed and the construction began in November 2017. This 64,785 square foot facility will house modern science laboratories, general classrooms, lecture classrooms, faculty offices, and an 880 square foot outdoor greenhouse. The new Science Center will open for classes in the Spring Semester 2022.​

Budget: $70.13 million

17th & Bristol Street Parking Lot

Project Summary:

• New surface parking lot.

Current Status:

• The project is in design development phase.
• Design document to be reviewed by District prior to submitting to DSA.
• Parking lot to be utilized for contractor worker parking for Dunlap Hall renovation on an interim basis.
• Start of construction is to be determined.

Budget: $1.65 million (Acquisition of property was paid by Measure E funds)