Law School
Completion Date March 1999
Published March 2001
The Suffolk University Law School has been in existence for almost a century as a law school serving day and evening students. With 1,700 students, it is the third largest law school in the country. The school is also a major alumni center as many of its graduates live and work in the greater Boston area. The new building provides the Law School with a unique opportunity to reposition itself in the highly competitive law school marketplace and to significantly enhance its reputation regionally and nationally.
The new 293,000-sf building houses classrooms, a major law library, moot court rooms, administrative and faculty offices, an alumni club, and a bookstore. A system of stacking atria on different levels creates a vertical campus for the urban school--a sense of campus it never had before. Located on Tremont Street, in the heart of Boston on the Freedom Trail, the Law School's day and evening programs help bring continuous activity to this important street.
The new building is equipped with the most advanced technological innovations, from classroom workspaces wired for laptop computers to moot court rooms equipped with advanced media capabilities.
High technology communication is a theme of the new 93,000-sf library, which occupies the top three floors of the building and enjoy views to the surrounding Beacon Hill. All carrels and reading tables are equipped with computer ports. Data/communication wiring, hardware, and software enables students to access the Internet, specialty information providers Lexis/Nexis Learning Center and Westlaw Learning Center, the local area network and, via satellite, real time interactive instruction from other institutions world wide.
The card catalogue system is fully computerized. A fully-equipped copy center and an internal elevator exclusive of the rest of the building ensure the security of the collection. The library provides increased space as well as expansion of the collections and database capabilities. It also serves as a research resource for many smaller law firms in Boston.
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Suffolk University |
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Owner Contact:
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David J. Sargent, Esq.
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Building Location:
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Boston, MA 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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Educational |
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Project Timeline
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| Dec 1993 | Planning Start |
| Jan 1996 | Design Start |
| Jul 1997 | Construction Start |
| Mar 1999 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Construction Cost: |
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$42,000,000 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$131 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Bookstore
Courtroom
Education
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Distance Learning
Education: Faculty Office
Law School
Library
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| Total GSF: |
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293,000 |
| Total NSF: |
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180,000 |
| Efficiency: |
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62% |
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Building Population:
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1000
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People Density:
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293 gsf/person
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Office Size:
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180 NSF
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Power Req:
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141 w/nsf
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HVAC Req:
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1 cmf/nsf
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Structure/Foundation:
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Steel frame with cast-in-place concrete on existing foundation
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Architect
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Tsoi/Kobus & Associates 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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Law School Photo courtesy of Tsoi Kobus & Associates, Steve Rosenthal Photographer Notes:
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