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Purdue University Creates E-Library
PurdueUniversity is renovating the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library, converting 60,000-sf to an advanced “Electronic Library”. The Walter and Saraellen Veon Electronic Reference Center, the centerpiece of the library, will contain a visitor service desk and a general study area housing 48 computers. The Center for Scholarly Communication will house electronic equipment to assist research and multimedia presentation. The main entry to the 18,000-sf ground floor will also be relocated. The facility is expected to open in February of 2003, with a grand re-opening in April.
University of Massachusetts Opens Alfond Management Center
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management (ISOM) will celebrate the grand opening of the four-floor, 47,000-sf Harold Alfond Management Center on October 11. Designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge, the $11,800,000 center is a three-story expansion of the ISOM facility and will house 4 caserooms, a financing training room with Bloomberg connectivity, computer labs, teleconferencing facilities, breakout rooms and offices. Fontaine Brothers of Springfield, Mass. was the project contractor.
Notre Dame High Completes High Tech Manley Hall
Notre Dame High School completed the $14-million Manley Hall in time for the fall 2002 school year. The three-story, 34,000-sf hall houses the most advanced computer labs in any Silicon Valley school, as well as a new library, three science labs, eleven new classrooms, and administrative offices. Designed by Anderson-Brule Architects of San Jose, the project was constructed by Blach Construction of Santa Clara.
Western Washington University Develops Communications Facility
Western Washington University, located in Bellingham, began work on its new Communications Facility in mid-August, with a formal groundbreaking to follow in October. Designed by Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership of Seattle, the 130,000-gsf, four-story facility will provide additional general classrooms for the university as well as instructional space for the departments of Physics, Computer Science, Communications and Journalism.
Purdue University Renovates Pharmacy Labs
Purdue University is developing Phase 3 and 4 of the Heine Pharmacy Laboratory renovation project. The National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2,970,000 to fund the four-phase renovation of over 20 laboratories in the Robert E. Heine Pharmacy Building that support NIH-sponsored research. Total cost for the project, with matching funds form Purdue, will reach approximately $6 million.