Lancaster Bible College – Teague Learning Commons

Lancaster Bible College and Horst Construction have partnered on many of this client’s campus projects over the last 40 years. As the Design-Build expert for the Teague Learning Commons, Horst was involved from the initial planning stages–providing critical budgeting and constructability expertise–through project completion. The 41,500 sf three-story, five-level building includes a library, bistro, meeting rooms, classrooms, administrative offices, music media lab, children’s library, archive/special collections room, and collaborative technology suites.

Features:

• Three-story, five-level building
• Library
• Bistro
• Meeting Rooms
• Classrooms
• Music Media Lab
• Children's Library
• Archive/Special Collections Room
• Collaborative Technology Suites
• Administrative Offices

Challenges:

• Record rainfall of 20 inches over a four-month period became a major challenge requiring the deep basement, foundations, elevator shaft drilling, and 30 geothermal wells (each 415′ deep) to be completed in the midst of extreme conditions.
• Construction activity uncovered multiple large and many small sinkholes which required remediation. Sinkhole development within the geothermal well field required relocation of several wells.
• Code Requirements: A cable handrail system for the atrium was designed, fabricated, and installed at the end of construction to accommodate a new code requirement–just weeks prior to the ribbon cutting.