Alamo Colleges District Support Office

The Alamo Colleges District manages five post-secondary institutions in San Antonio. It takes a lot of people to keep those schools running. They had a team of more than 500 support staff working in all those buildings. To create the best education experience for their 60,000 students, Alamo Colleges wanted their entire team under one roof.  They needed to create a space that served everyone’s needs. And it had to look good doing it.

Members of Alamo’s facilities team had worked with DIRTT before. They knew that prefabricated construction could give them the style and flexibility they needed. Experience told them they had to be ready to adapt. No problem. Modular solutions let them future-proof the space. They just had no idea how fast things were going to evolve.

Early in the construction process, the team was forced to change the building footprint. All of a sudden, they had to accommodate the same number of staff with much less square footage. As plans altered, this put more pressure on an already tight schedule. Luckily, they were using DIRTT. Glass-fronted huddle rooms, tech-enabled board rooms and custom millwork were all installed quickly. DIRTT modular power also sped up the process. There wasn’t as much waste. There were fewer people on site. And that meant less worry about the deadline. Alamo Colleges District got the high-end space they wanted today and the ability to make it even better tomorrow.