CCC Kearney Center

When one of the top-rated community colleges in the Midwest wanted to build a new signature education facility to attract high school students, they turned to Morrissey Engineering. The college not only wanted to design a 21st-century educational facility with technology-enriched-learning lab-style classrooms, distance education rooms for worldwide instruction, and advanced manufacturing labs, but to showcase the colleges commitment to the environment. From the beginning, the college’s goal was a net-zero energy building. Morrissey Engineering provided early conceptual design strategies, advanced energy modeling, and daylighting studies for the project as well as complete MEPT design. The building exemplifies a forward-thinking, high-tech, sustainability-minded college.

Skilled Training Wing
- Skills lab with welding, advanced manufacturing, mechatronics, and construction labs
Health & Sciences Wing
- Nursing, biology, and chemistry labs
High technology learning labs
General classroom spaces
Computer labs
Student services
Lecture hall
Video wall in the lobby
Geothermal heat pump system
Demand control ventilation

This project won 2018 IES Illumination Awards for Interior Lighting Design and Energy and Environmental Lighting Design

New Construction

Kearney, Nebraska

65,000 SF

2017

Wilkins Architecture | Design | Planning