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The Iowa Association of Community College Trustees (IACCT) will be moving a few blocks south next summer.

The nonprofit organization, which represents 15 community colleges throughout the state, currently resides on East Locust Street but is in the process of building a new facility on Court Avenue near the state Capitol.

Construction started in late August on the building, which will cost approximately $2.1 million and is expected to be completed by August 2009.

“Right now, we have steel hanging up in the air,” said Phil Parrott, who is the project manager from The Durrant Group Inc., “and are probably anticipating the enclosure that will be built around it to start in about the next week or so.”

Parrott said when the IACCT’s facility is complete, it will be a masonry building that features polished concrete floors and a clerestory – high windows – that will illuminate a “fairly large” atrium at the entrance of the building.

“(The clerestory) will allow light to come down into an atrium, which will then be used to display community colleges’ work,” he said.

Durrant was officially assigned to the project as the architectural engineer nearly two years ago when its request for proposal submission won the bid process. Ruepke Construction Co. Inc. of Derby, Iowa, is the general contractor.

Once complete, the IACCT’s building will be two stories tall and will enclose approximately 7,200 square feet, Parrott said.

Initially, the project was going to follow Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building guidelines as outlined by the U.S. Green Building Council, but Parrott said he is unsure whether the IACCT wants to continue with those plans.

“It started off to be a LEED building, and then the owner decided not to (go through with it),” Parrott said, noting he had already registered the proposed building as a LEED project.

“We were thinking about going through with it anyway, but we haven’t pursued that idea much farther at this point.”

Parrott said construction crews will continue to work on the site through the winter in order to stay on schedule for the anticipated summer 2009 opening.