Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., is planning a multi-building expansion of its School of Medicine comprising up to five buildings over the next fifteen years. The first $86-million facility, the Learning and Knowledge Center, is being designed by NBBJ of San Francisco. The 120,000-sf facility will connect the medical school with Stanford’s main campus and will house a biomedical library, classrooms, and hospital simulation rooms. Groundbreaking is slated for 2008. Additionally, 75,000 sf of office, teaching lab, and support space will be renovated in the Lane and Alway facilities. The other four planned facilities will house research labs. Stanford is also planning to break ground in fall of 2007 on SEQ2, the second science and engineering quad project.
