Multi-Disciplinary Science Building
Completion Date November 1999
Published March 2001
This new teaching and research building brings together the departments of Physics/Astronomy and Mathematics/Computer Science, encouraging interdisciplinary studies while providing a state-of-the-art facility for programs that utilize advanced instructional technology and interactive pedagogic approaches.
The two-story building houses teaching and research laboratories, classrooms and lecture halls, conference and seminar rooms, faculty offices, and a reading room/library as well as a planetarium and observatory. The facility's specialized physics laboratories and classrooms have been designed to foster the goals of collaborative, hands-on learning inherent in the nationally acclaimed "Workshop Physics" model developed at the College. This learning model features T-shaped benches functioning alternately for four-student group experiments and shared computer operations while the central area is designed for group demonstrations.
The L-shaped building plan accommodates the Physics/Astronomy program spaces in one wing, the Math/Computer Science program spaces in the other, and shared spaces at the intersection of the two. The two wings embrace a private garden space featuring an outdoor classroom.
One the exterior, the building utilizes the predominant campus material--a local limestone--on the two public façades facing the campus, and stucco on the private "garden" sides. The building façade on the street side is modulated to express important program elements: the lecture hall and library are contained in an angled stone-clad form at one end, and the planetarium and observatory at the other, housed in a dramatic metal-glass conical form, contrasting with the rough-hewn stone. A glass lobby providing separate access for the public to planetarium functions separates the planetarium/observatory element from the main façade.
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Dickinson College |
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Owner Contact:
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Nancy Baxter-Hasting, Professor of Mathematics
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Building Location:
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Carlisle, PA UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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New Construction
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Principal Building Function:
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Teaching and Research |
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Project Timeline
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| Jan 1997 | Planning Start |
| Apr 1997 | Design Start |
| Jun 1998 | Construction Start |
| Nov 1999 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Construction Cost: |
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$9,500,000 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$195 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Conference Room
Education
Education: Classroom
Education: Faculty Office
Education: Lecture Or Seminar Hall
Laboratory: Research
Laboratory: Teaching
Library
Observatory
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| Total GSF: |
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48,700 |
| Total NSF: |
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29,415 |
| Efficiency: |
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60% |
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Building Population:
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810
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People Density:
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60 gsf/person
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Building Services:
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Compressed air
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Special Equip:
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Planetarium equipment, Spitz Observatory Dome, Ash-dome telescope--D.F.M. Engineering
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Office Size:
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180 NSF
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Power Req:
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3 cfm/nsf
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Structure/Foundation:
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Braced-frame steel with concrete spread footings
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Casework Mat'l:
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Plastic laminate
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Architect
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Ellenzweig Inc.
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| Profile Created 03/31/2001 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these
projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders.
Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may
not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some
cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent
a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for
year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost
adjustments.
Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model.
Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while
the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being
supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might
include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals
include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which
others do not.
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Multi-Disciplinary Science Building Photo courtesy of Ellenzweig Associates © Anton Grassi Photography Notes:
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