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ARCHITECTURE _ AUVANIACit Project Narrative LABORER'S TRAINING CENTER 5-11-2020 Architecture Advantage and Barr Engineering Company are submitting this Site Plan Review Package on behalf of the Laborer's Training Center in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. The Laborer's Training Center (LTC) offers construction industry vocational training at their current Lino Lakes facility. They offer a range of classes and apprenticeship programs for construction laborers as well continuing education for union members who need to maintain their certifications. The LTC provides hands-on training in construction skills, environmental issues and construction safety procedures. The LTC has been at their current location since 1993 and they have grown their training program to such a degree that they have outgrown their current working/training bays, classrooms and storage spaces. In order to keep pace with this growth, the LTC Board of Directors has been actively planning for how they can expand their facility to serve all the trainees and union members that need to obtain training from this facility. Architecture Advantage has been assisting in this planning process over the last 2 to 3 years. A series of meetings have been held to develop a cohesive campus masterplan for the LTC that will guide their expansion needs over the next twenty to thirty years. Barr Engineering has been working with Architecture Advantage and the LTC over the last 1 '/2 years to update their wetland delineation plan and to prepare a full set of civil and landscape plans that will facilitate the construction of a new building that will house working bays for construction training, classrooms, offices and an auditorium. This new facility will be built in two phases. The second phase of building construction may not occur for some years, but the civil work will all be done upfront so that the site will be ready for a second phase of this proposed facility when the time comes. This new construction project is based on the idea that we are developing a campus type atmosphere to serve the needs of the LTC. Both phases of the new building have been designed to complement the existing building. The design of the new building is following the same forms and proportions of the existing sloped roof high bays and low flat roofed classroom & office spaces. The new building will use the same materials that occur on the existing building and the color pallet will match the colors on the existing building as well. This will help to give the LTC a cohesive, integrated campus feel to their facility. This project will incorporate a site restoration designed by Barr Engineering as well as a new expanded parking lot designed by Barr. The site will have a rebuilt entry/service road on the east side of the property and will have new tree and shrub plantings that will provide a good visual screen along the east side of the new building. www.architectureadvantage.com