Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Breaks Ground on Academic Building

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will break ground in October of 2018 on a $29 million academic building in Terre Haute, Ind. Featuring a glass-walled atrium to showcase internal activities, the three-story, 60,000-sf facility will provide design studios, collaborative workspaces, faculty research suites, breakout rooms, and six flexible classrooms. Designed by RATIO Architects with Research Facilities Design (RFD) as laboratory design consultant, the building will house a prototyping lab, a woodworking shop, chemistry labs with separate instructional and experiential learning areas, and an instrumentation suite with NMR spectroscopy equipment. Occupancy is expected in fall of 2021. Additionally, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology broke ground in July of 2018 on a $2.2 million, 13,800-sf engineering building that will offer maker spaces, robotics labs, and design competition venues.