ENR Southwest's 2018 Best Projects
Small Project and Specialty Best Project: Cloud Song at Scottsdale Community College

The 31,000-sq-ft center has six classrooms for business students, an accounting and statistics learning center, eight faculty offices and student support space. It also features the Indigenous Cultural Center, which is dedicated to the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community.
Photo by Architekton

In homage to a community tale of a lost child, a saguaro cactus rib design element was cast within the concrete panels. Each skeletonized saguaro rib was fastened to the reveal side of the formwork with a thin layer of sand brushed between the ribs to keep the concrete from submerging the entire rib.
Photo by Architekton

Crews used weed-burning torches to ignite the ribs and used a 12-in. metal scraper as a shield to prevent unwanted burning on the surrounding ribs.
Photo by Suntec
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Best Project
General Contractor: Okland Construction
Lead Design Firm: Architekton
Structural Engineer: PK Associates
Civil Engineer: Hess Rountree
MEP Engineer: Energy Systems Design
Landscape Architect: Colwell Shelor
Concrete: Suntec Concrete
Energy Systems Design: Dick Santistevan
The 31,000-sq-ft center has six classrooms for business students, an accounting and statistics learning center, eight faculty offices and student support space. It also features the Indigenous Cultural Center, which is dedicated to the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community and includes a large meeting room, private study rooms and shared spaces dedicated to teaching Native American culture, history and current events.

