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 Science and Teleconferencing Center

The $16-million Science and Teleconferencing Center's vision is to stimulate the economic development of Southern New Jersey with a program that includes heavy emphasis on the Center's availability for use by business. The Center will serve as an electronic hub for the program needs of a consortium of six New Jersey institutions.

An L-shaped building responds to the campus master plan by anchoring the east end of a new proposed campus quadrangle and serves as an important link from the vehicle circulation areas. The building's three major elements will include a teleconferencing center, a science wing, and a large entry rotunda. The interior of the 100,000-sf building will be organized via an oversized perimeter corridor along a full-height glass wall bordering the new quad. This configuration creates day-lit spaces designed to promote impromptu gatherings and offer informal seating areas to enjoy the view across the quad.

The centerpiece of the Teleconferencing Center will be a 575-seat auditorium on two levels. Its cylindrical form will be capped with a large dome roof designed to visually anchor the east end of the new quad. The auditorium will accommodate small college and community performances in addition to larger lectures and multimedia events. Businesses will have access to the flexibly designed exhibit hall/dining room area with seating for 300 and an adjacent full-service kitchen. Other key spaces include sub-dividable meeting rooms, lecture rooms, computer classrooms, and multiple distance-learning rooms. A television studio complex will also support college classes, direct broadcasts, and business use for commercial production shoots.

Designed to complement the Teleconferencing Center, the profile of the science wing will be defined by a low sloping roof that echoes the forms of the adjoining wing. The building's two stories will provide flexible laboratory and classroom space for the biology and chemistry departments. An entry rotunda, two and a half stories in height, will serve as the focal point from the campus loop road and Route 38 to the south, especially at night when light from its clerestory windows will act as a beacon defining the new campus element.

Educators as well as business trainers will be taught the effective use of multimedia technologies. This will allow for the implementation of the long-term vision, which is for education and workforce development opportunities to be provided through multimedia teleconferencing technologies and business/industry space for marketing, product development, and tele-medicine.




Project Information
Building Owner: Burlington County College
Owner Contact: Lisa DiChiara-Platt
Building Location: Mt. Laurel, NJ UNITED STATES
Project Type: New Construction
Principal Building Function: Teleconferencing Center
Project Delivery Method: Design/Build
Project Timeline
Jul 1997Planning Start
Sep 1997Design Start
Sep 1999Construction Start
Jun 2001Completion
Last known status: Completed
Project Cost: $21,000,000
Construction Cost: $16,000,000
Cost Per Sq. Ft: $140
About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes: Auditorium
Biology
Chemistry
Computers
Conference Room
Dining
Education: Classroom
Education: Multimedia
Laboratory: Teaching
Theater
Video Conferenceing Center
Total GSF: 100,000
Total NSF: 55,000
Efficiency: 55%
Building Population: 2275
People Density: 44 gsf/person
Building Services: DI, compressed air, steam, gas, fiber-optic, data backbone
Structure/Foundation: Braced-frame steel with concrete spread footings
Project Team
Architect EYP Architecture and Engineering
Builder Thomas P. Carney Inc.
Consultant - Accoustical Shen, Milson & Wilke Associates
Consultant - Fire Protection Vitetta
Consultant - MEP Engineer Vitetta
Consultant - Structural Vitetta
Contractor - Electrical DEC Electrical Contractors Inc.
Contractor - Plumbing Comfort Mechanical Group
Supplier - Steel Arnold Steel Co. Inc.
Profile Created 06/01/2001
Last Updated 04/04/2006
About the Reported Cost Figures
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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