{"id":9712,"date":"2016-12-05T18:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2021-03-22T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T20:10:04","slug":"west-campus-open-new-parking-garage-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/west-campus-open-new-parking-garage-january\/","title":{"rendered":"West Campus To Open New Parking Garage In January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next semester, the new parking facility at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/west\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">West Campus<\/span><\/strong><\/a> will open to students after more than four years of outsourced parking, legal battles and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/four-dead-several-injured-after-parking-garage-collapses-at-west-campus\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">fatal accident<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe facility has a brand new, safe structure, a new facility with a new contractor, and a new design,\u201d said Juan Mendieta, Director of Communications for Miami Dade College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The six-story structure includes 2,026 parking spots, five double-sided rows of parking spaces on each floor and bridges on floors two and three, which connect to building 1, according to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ana DeMahy, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">executive director of West Campus<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has two exits and entrances to maximize traffic flow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Officials say the new building does not only aim to solve the ongoing parking issue, but contribute to the expansion of West Campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also an open walkway between the two buildings with benches and greenery as we travel between the two spaces,\u201d DeMahy said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The undercover space will span the length of the building, providing students a locale for exchange of ideas, eating and studying. This space will be equipped with media equipment and capabilities to also serve as a presentation venue or for exhibitors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The venue will allow the campus to host guest speakers, presentations and performances. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a major sculpture park installation already on the plaza. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spite of the sculptures, in late November, the construction site was a scene of rubble and dust, with workers busy drilling and construction equipment scattered around the area surrounded by a giant blue mesh screen fence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">West Campus has been attempting to fix a shortage of student parking space for the past four years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February of 2012, West Campus broke ground at<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3800 N.W. 115th,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for a $22.5 million-dollar parking facility set out to be completed in late December of that year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, five free 45-passenger shuttle busses transported students from International Mall, where they parked their cars within a portion of the parking lot leased by the College, to MDC-West. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have serious parking issues,\u201d DeMahy said to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reporter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in March of 2012. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January of 2015, West Campus added a new satellite parking location for students at Doral Central Park, N.W. 33 St. and 91st Ave. Students were taken from the park \u00a0to campus via shuttle busses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then in August of 2015, the College discontinued using International Mall and \u00a0Doral Central Park as parking locations. They then leased the second floor area of the IKEA parking garage, a furniture store located by Dolphin Mall at 1801 N.W. 117th Ave., 20 streets and two avenues from West Campus. \u00a0That is where students have been parking since. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the parking is free, students complain about the tedious process to get to class which involves parking at IKEA, showing their MDC student IDs, waiting for the yellow school-like buses called Shark Shuttles, riding them and experiencing it all over again when the academic day ends. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The buses run on a continuous loop, with a new bus departing every 10 minutes. But many students don\u2019t find the buses convenient. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been late around five times this semester, and it\u2019s come to the point that my computer class professor is lenient with the entire class,\u201d said Yan Coelho, 18, an international relations major at West. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melanie Hurtado, a political science major at West, shares Coelho\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">frustration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spite of having her own car, most days, Hurtado\u2019s father drops her off on campus to avoid the parking ordeal. She\u2019s looking forward to the spring semester, but like many of her peers, she is uneasy about parking at the new garage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt would definitely be closer and I can get to class faster, but I don\u2019t know if I feel completely safe,\u201d Hurtado said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shuttle buses that have transported students to and from class, from different parking locations throughout the years, will stop running on Dec. 18, the last day of fall classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first attempt West Campus made to supply enough parking for the campus resulted in a tragedy that struck the MDC community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the construction was three-fourths completed, a pancake collapse of the structure on Oct. 10, 2012 resulted in the death of four construction workers and the injuries of several others. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a report filed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the collapse was caused after the construction companies neglected to correctly grout the locations of the columns, missed putting welds and failed to closely examine the columns after a crane hit one of the columns two days before the incident. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a 2012 guest column for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reporter<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 A. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vicente, who was the president of West and North<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Campuses at the time, expressed his grief when he heard the news of the collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was overcome by a whole range of emotions: shock, disbelief, fear, sadness,\u201d Vicente said. \u201cIt goes without saying that the loss of human life is the worst tragedy of all.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campus was closed from Oct. 10, 2012 to January 2013. Non-credit West courses were moved to Kendall Campus, while credited ones courses were moved to North Campus and Ronald W. Reagan Senior High School in Doral. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six months later, OSHA penalized Ajax and four other contracting companies working on the site for more than $38,000 in total as a result of multiple inspection flaws and lack of proper oversight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe precast erector failed to brace the columns in the north-south direction on the day of the incident. The precast erector did not adequately support the B3 column, thereby causing collapse of the column. The precast erector thereby failed to maintain structural stability during construction. OSHA standard 1926.704(a) was violated,\u201d according to OSHA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Court cases were filed by the families of the deceased workers against Ajax Building Corps and the subcontractors, resulting in an undisclosed settlement for the families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collapse lead to the deaths of Robert Budhoo, 53; Carlos Hurtado de Mendoza, 48; Jose Calderon, 60; and Samuel Perez, 53. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perez was trapped in the rubble for 17 hours; Budhoo\u2019s body was retrieved from the rubble a week and a day after the collapse. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A banner wrapped around a palm tree in front of building 1 at West serves as a makeshift \u00a0memorial for Budhoo. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months later, the College filed a lawsuit in 2013 against Ajax and the subcontractors, that resulted in a settlement of $33.5 million reached in mid May of 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs part of the settlement, the College received $26.5 million, and the $7 million the school owed the contractors for the garage was waived,\u201d a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 2015 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Herald <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">article reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haskell Construction Group, a Jacksonville-based engineer and design firm was hired after the Ajax contract was dissolved. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dismantling of the old facility began winter of 2014, before new construction started. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new structure\u2019s construction began on<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Oct. 6, 2015. \u00a0Juan Mendieta, the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">director of communications for MDC said at the time, that none of the old structure remained and the foundation was rebuilt as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, last April, a beam fell and injured two Haskell employees on an elevated platform at the construction site, setting back the final completion date for the project again. No student, faculty, or staff from the College were injured during the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College officials additional precautions were taken to make ensure another accident does \u00a0not occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe difference between this parking garage construction and the previous is that this structure was overseen during the construction and fabrication by multiple third party inspectors,\u201d said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MDC Vice Provost Facilities Management Neyda Otero.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cAnd was put together on site, ensuring all elements were welded and secured as per manufacturer\u2019s specification as it was being completed section by section.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In spite of the setbacks, some students remain optimistic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith the new parking garage, now I can leave my house later, then I can just park and go directly to class,\u201d said Nelson Gallegos student of English for Academic Purposes at West. \u201cMy car is an old car so I don\u2019t care if the garage collapses again because I can get a settlement and just get a newer model.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College officials said they do not plan to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new parking garage. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next semester, the new parking facility at West Campus will open to students after more than four years of outsourced parking, legal battles and a fatal accident. \u00a0 \u201cThe facility has a brand new, safe structure, a new facility with a new contractor, and a new design,\u201d said Juan Mendieta, Director of Communications for Miami 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