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Central Oregon Community College, spurred by steady enrollment growth, is adding a $15.6 million residence hall on its Bend campus.

The 330-bed, Z-shaped building will include a central kitchen, collaborative work space and group meeting rooms, said Mike Levesque, project manager for Lease Crutcher Lewis, which is the construction manager-general contractor. Mahlum Architects, which has a Portland office, is the lead architect — in association with Bend-based Pinnacle Architecture. Construction is set to finish by June 2015.

The team is targeting Earth Advantage Multifamily gold certification via a waste management reduction plan in which 95 percent of the site’s wood, cardboard and drywall will be recycled.

The residence hall will be tucked away on campus behind a wooded area, obscuring views from Mount Washington Drive and adjacent neighborhoods, according to COCC.

“It is built into a hill – there’s a lot of rock out here,” Levesque said. “We are using that rock to build retaining walls. We’re also installing stormwater facilities so that the stormwater doesn’t leave the site.”

The four- and five-story building will have a common kitchen facility, a laundry facility, a game and lounge facility, and student study rooms, Levesque said. The hall will be used year-round, and accommodate conferences in summertime.

The CM-GC process allowed the college, which funded the $20 million project through a self-financed bond, to better know the costs up front, said Ron Paradis, spokesman for COCC. It’s the first time COCC has used a CM-GC model, he said.

“We just felt we could not get far into the process and not know what the total costs would be,” he said.

Meanwhile, construction also is under way on the 34,000-square-foot, $12.5 million Redmond Technology Education Center at COCC’s Redmond campus. Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co. is the general contractor and BBT Architects is the architect for the project.