Southwest College

Los Angeles Southwest College’s service area consists of 45 square miles that includes parts of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated sections of Los Angeles County (2nd Supervisorial District), as well as portions of Gardena, Hawthorne, and Inglewood. For almost 50 years, Southwest College has focused its resources on empowering a diverse student population to help achieve their academic and career goals. It is a is a two-year college that awards Associate’s Degrees in more than 30 fields and occupational certificates in more than 45 disciplines. It offers a range of programs that meet the community’s needs, including college transfer services, occupational training, community services as well as general, transitional and continuing education.

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Featured Projects

School of Behavioral and Social Sciences

The School of Behavioral and Social Sciences is a three-story new classroom and faculty office building housing the School of Behavior and Social Sciences.

School of Career & Technical Education

The School of Career & Technical Education is a new facility to house the School of Business as well as the Workforce Development and Corporate Relations Offices, a new Career Resource Center, a new Environmental and Technology Science Program, a Student Success Center and shared support space functions.

Active Projects

Sub Project Number	Sub Project Title	% Complete	Academic Occupancy Date	Progress Summary
06S-618.01	School of Science	32.00 %	12/04/2019	Construction in progress.
06S-602.00	Student Union	0.00 %	09/23/2022	Programming/Project Criteria Architect DLR Group selected.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

LASC - Celebrates the School of Science Steel Topping out

August 13, 2018-Los Angeles Community College District officials joined the design-build team, Harper Construction Co. and Sillman Wright Architect officials for a special ceremony celebrating a construction milestone for the School of Science Building at Los Angeles Southwest College. The new, $16 million School of Science is an environmentally friendly, 27,000-square-foot, two-story building funded by 2008’s $3.5 billion Measure J for the modernization, renovation and new construction of LACCD facilities. The building will feature state-of-the art labs, classrooms and a rooftop observatory or students and faculty to gather. The School of Science building is expected to open in Fall 2019.

Small Contractor Boot Camp Flyer - Fall 2018

JULY 23, 2018

Small Contractor Boot Camp - Fall 2018

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Small Contractor Boot Camp is a six-week program that provides small contractors with the tools necessary to improve their competitive capacity through a comprehensive, hands-on curriculum. At the conclusion of the 6-week boot camp, small contractors will be ready to bid on BuildLACCD contracts.