Georgia Perimeter College Opens New 100-acre Campus to Replace Storefront Location

Students residing in eight Georgia counties that previously were academically underserved by a public institution of higher learning, are enjoying a new, 100-acre community college campus that replaces an east-of-Atlanta storefront in a former shopping plaza.

Georgia Perimeter College (GPC), a metro Atlanta multi-campus, two-year college that is the third largest institution of the University System of Georgia, opened the doors to its new campus in Newton County's city of Covington last summer with the first building, a 104,000-square-foot structure.

Building 1 is a flexible, all-in-one campus facility, designed to enable some of its functions to move to other buildings and others to expand as the Newton Campus grows.

Construction on a second student service-focused building began in December, and school officials anticipate it will be ready for classes at the start of spring semester 2009.

Lord, Aeck & Sargent served as the design architect for both phases and as architect of record for the first building.

The Architecture Group served as associate architect on the initial phase and is architect of record for the second phase.

Lord, Aeck & Sargent - in collaboration with The Architecture Group; Paulien Associates; and Hughes, Good, O'Leary & Ryan - led the campus planning effort for developing architectural strategies for the overall campus master plan.