The San Mateo Community College District ‘s faculty housing complex was experiencing major water infiltration issues.  The project site is located on a steep hillside overlooking the South Bay making material deliveries and placement challenging. Thru the competitive bid process W.E. Lyons was selected to complete the task of completely removing and replacing the skin of the buildings while the buildings remained fully occupied thru phases construction.   Prior to starting the work the College requested an extensive Value-Engineering exercise, wherein W.E. Lyons was able to reduce the overall costs by over fifteen percent (15%).