The Southwest College School of Career and Technical Education (SOCTE) geometrical configurations literally open the space to students while welcoming the neighboring community to utilize its resources.  The building provides practical, hands-on training to diverse, multi-generational user groups in a safe and inviting campus facility.  The design for this innovative building helps re-brand this Los Angeles Community College District campus as a vibrant, forward-thinking 21st century institution.  With its prominent facades and highly visible gateways, the building announces its presence to the public and engages users approaching from both north and south.  Large expanses of glass and open-air corridors, lobbies, and courtyards exhibit the professional training and instruction taking place on the inside. The multi-purpose auditorium and conference rooms, which are accessed directly off a primary open-air corridor, support campus-wide and community usage. Research and testing labs are situated on the first floor, next to the open-air central core. The highly visible southeast corner of the second level, which contains classrooms and faculty offices, protrudes outward toward the campus.

J&M constructed site concrete elements including curb and gutter, architectural pedestrain paving and banding, vehicular paving, CIP concrete walls, steps, ADA ramps, footings and topping slabs.