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Cornell University has selected St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to provide construction management and general contracting services for Duffield Hall, a research and teaching facility for nanotechnology. The $42-million construction project, a joint venture with Welliver McGuire, Inc. of Elmira, N.Y., will provide state-of-the-art accommodations for the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility which will be located on Cornell's Pew Engineering Quadrangle in Ithaca. Duffield Hall will house other nanotechnology and materials-development groups currently existing on campus such as the Cornell Center for Materials Research and the Nanobiotechnology Center.

Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Los Angeles, the 153,000-sf facility will contain four types of laboratories: cleanroom, wet, dry and specialty, including a 20,000-sf cleanroom with a teaching laboratory for training students in nanotechnology processes. The project includes the relocation of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility to Duffield Hall and demolition of Knight Laboratory, where the facility is currently located. It also includes redesign of the Engineering Quadrangle, the addition of Duffield Hall and an atrium connecting Duffield, Phillips and Upson Halls.