Matador Success & Inclusion Center
California State University, Northridge Matador Success & Inclusion Center | Northridge, California
The Matador Success and Inclusion Center will be a new three-story, 49,000-sq.-ft. facility located on the CSU Northridge (CSUN) campus, scheduled to complete before the start of the 2027 fall semester. The building is envisioned as a welcoming hub where students from all backgrounds can find support, connect with others, and pursue their goals in an inclusive environment, with the aim of helping every student feel that they belong and can succeed.
About the Project
DPR and design-build partner Steinberg Hart are in the process of designing and constructing the steel-framed, Type II-B mixed-use building. The facility is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification and will house five individual programs, including:
- Identity-Based Resource Centers (IBRC)
- Ethnic Studies Center for Research, Activism and Community Empowerment (ES for RACE)
- Community & High-Impact Practices (CHIP)
- Matador Achievement Center (MAC), which provides academic advising for student-athletes
- Athletics administration and coaching offices, which will be relocated to this new facility
Project Innovations
Best-in-Class Preconstruction
From the pursuit phase through design, DPR has leveraged multiple relationships with design, trade and in-house partners to provide early cost certainty. DPR also brought on self-perform experts to help develop solutions with the design team to provide realistic design expectations, utilizing a Target Value Design (TVD) process and tracking decisions in Join.build.
Detailed, Constructible Models
The team collaborated with DPR’s strategic partner, vConstruct, to model the underground utilities and assess potential conflicts of existing conditions for early underground utility work. The team also developed structural steel modeling and detailing alongside the Structural Engineer of Record for shop drawing development by GPLA, a DPR partner company.
Project
Innovations
Best-in-Class Preconstruction
From the pursuit phase through design, DPR has leveraged multiple relationships with design, trade and in-house partners to provide early cost certainty. DPR also brought on self-perform experts to help develop solutions with the design team to provide realistic design expectations, utilizing a Target Value Design (TVD) process and tracking decisions in Join.build.
Detailed, Constructible Models
The team collaborated with DPR’s strategic partner, vConstruct, to model the underground utilities and assess potential conflicts of existing conditions for early underground utility work. The team also developed structural steel modeling and detailing alongside the Structural Engineer of Record for shop drawing development by GPLA, a DPR partner company.
Building the Right Team
The MSIC project was awarded as part of a competitive lump-sum two-step design-build competition. DPR and Steinberg Hart have partnered with highly qualified engineers and specialty trade partners, as well as DPR self-perform teams to better control safety, cost, and schedule. Our self-perform trades include:
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