Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship
Completion Date August 1998
Published March 2001
The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson College is the new home for the College's nationally recognized graduate program in business and entrepreneurship. The building, located on Babson's campus in Wellesley, Mass., brings together faculty, students, and programs in a contemporary facility supported with the most sophisticated technological services.
Built as a significant addition to the 1920's Luksic Hall, the design for the Center for Entrepreneurship uses brick, limestone, and slate to harmonize with the adjacent building, but also expresses a distinctive identity through contemporary materials and a glass curtain wall.
Building features include:
- An exhibit display area with interactive programs that educate students, visitors, and program participants about the role of entrepreneurship in American culture. The exhibit area also highlights famous graduates and their entrepreneurial ideas and products. Hanging displays of everyday products that were created by entrepreneurs bring alive the subject of entrepreneurship for exhibit viewers.
- A teleconferencing center with rear projection screens and data and microphone ports in flexible arrangements to allow several configurations in a seminar-type room.
- A "cyberforum," with electronic whiteboard and large screen monitors, that provides informal space for faculty and student interaction.
- An archive resource center which is electronically connected to the Babson Library, archives, and a database of entrepreneurs.
- A second-floor reception terrace to host gatherings for students, faculty, visiting dignitaries, and scholars.
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Babson College |
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Owner Contact:
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David Peduto
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Building Location:
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Wellesley, MA UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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Expansion
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Principal Building Function:
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Teaching, exhibit hall, faculty offices |
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Project Timeline
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| Aug 1996 | Planning Start |
| Dec 1996 | Design Start |
| Dec 1997 | Construction Start |
| Aug 1998 | Completion |
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Last known status: Completed
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| Construction Cost: |
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$4,400,000 |
| Cost Per Sq. Ft: |
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$261 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Business School
Conference Room
Education
Education: Classroom
Education: Library
Museum
Video Conferenceing Center
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| Total GSF: |
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17,000 |
| Total NSF: |
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15,640 |
| Efficiency: |
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92% |
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Building Population:
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120
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People Density:
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142 gsf/person
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Building Services:
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Video conferencing, distance learning
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| Profile Created 03/31/2001 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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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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Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship Photo courtesy of CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares Inc., Edward Jacoby Notes:
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