Union College is creating housing for 230 students by renovating an inn recently purchased by the liberal arts and engineering college in Schenectady, N.Y. Funded by an issue of $15-million in bonds, the renovation will include repairs to the exterior, roof, fire protection, and HVAC. A new study area, entryway, fitness center, and meeting rooms will be constructed. The renovation is slated for completion in fall 2004.
Baylor University has completed its $13.2 million multi-use facility that will serve as the new home for the university’s Information Technology Services Group. Sited on Baylor’s Dallas campus, the 400,000-sf design/build project houses office and restaurant space as well as structured parking for 1,195 cars. The contractor for the project was McCarthy, who also recently broke ground on a new 1,170-car, 360,000-sf design/build parking structure on Baylor’s Waco campus. Budgeted at $9.6 million, the facility will be completed in summer 2004.
The University of Central Florida’s Wayne Densch Sports Center has recently been completed by Clancy & Theys Construction in Orlando, Fla. The 44,000-sf training facility, a one-story building modeled after an early 1920’s field house, features a sports medical center and strength and conditioning room accessible to all UCF student athletes. The center also houses offices for UCF’s football team.
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has selected Boston-based Shepley Bullfinch Richardson and Abbott to design its new 350,000-sf cardiovascular center. The center will accommodate 20 intensive care beds, six operating rooms, five cardiac catheterization labs, five electrophysiology labs, two interventional radiology operating rooms, 36 outpatient exam rooms, and a non-invasive testing suite. Construction will begin in fall 2003 with completion in spring 2007.
The University of Texas is planning the Texas Center for High-Intensity Laser Science. The facility will accommodate scientists studying and manipulating the interactions of matter with a high-intensity laser. The center, slated for completion in three years, will be built in an underground bay on the university’s Austin campus.
Georgia Institute of Technology celebrated the opening of the $47-million Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on September 4, 2003. Part of the $196 million Technology Square development, the 252-room hotel and high-tech executive conference center broke ground in October 2001 and features wireless Internet, video conferencing, and its own satellite uplink. Hotel rooms include flat-screen televisions and T-1 line Internet connections. The building was designed by architects Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates Inc.
The University of Washington is renovating the 105,00-sf Blue Flame Building in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle as the future home of UW Medicine Lake Union. Vulcan Inc. is the design and construction planner for the project, which is slated to begin in January and reach completion in November 2004. The building will house cancer research, the Program for Translational Medicine in Women's Health, and the Center for Cardiovascular Biology.
St. Louis Community College recently completed the 59,000-sf South County Education and University Center. An extension of the Meramec campus, the facility will serve approximately 2,000 students. The technology-rich facility features three computer labs, 17 “smart” classrooms, two interactive TV rooms connecting to other colleges, and computer carts with radio cards for wireless Internet access. 19 telecommunications enclosures provide wireless Internet connection from nearly everywhere in the building. Ground was broken on the project in December 2001 by project contractor Fru-Con Corp.
The University of Missouri-St. Louis has opened the new $52-million Blanch M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. The 123,000-sf facility houses the 1,625 Anheuser Busch Performance Hall and the 300-seat E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theatre. Designed by Pei-Cobb Freed & Partners with the acoustic firm of Kirkegaard Associates, the center accommodates dressing rooms, performer lounges, two box offices, and a 42 x 54 ft rehearsal room. The center, which has a $6-million operating budget, will be used by both the university and the performing arts community.
Webster University opened its new $21-million Emerson Library on July 1, 2003. The 71,500-sf, five-floor facility accommodates 750 data ports, 20 small-group study rooms, a 100-person lecture room, an electronic classroom, and a 25-computer cyber café. The facility is Webster's only U.S. library; all other Webster campuses can access the library's materials in computer labs. Contractor Paric Corp. broke ground on the project in 2001. The library was designed by architectural firm Perry, Dean, Rogers & Partners of Boston.
Yale School of Medicine’s Biomedical Research and Teaching Facility, known as 300 Cedar Street, is designed to maximize collaboration between basic and clinical scientific disciplines. Designed by Payette Associates, the 450,000-gsf project was dedicated on the New Haven, Ct.,campus in May 2003. A six-story, 350,000-gsf wing supports flexible laboratories for 700 scientists focused on disease-related research. A four-story, 100,000-gsf wing supports medical education including the school’s new gross anatomy and histology teaching laboratories for medical and physician associate students.
Washington University School of Medicine recently completed the $5-million renovation of the fifth floor of the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building. The 30,000-sf project involved gutting the existing floor and constructing new offices, laboratories, cold rooms, microscope rooms, and tissue culture rooms for the departments of molecular oncology and cell biology. The renovation also included the creation of a BSL-3 laboratory. The project contractor was Tarlton Corp. of St. Louis.
Sanford-Brown College is developing a $3.6-million educational facility in the Eastport Plaza Business Park in Collinsville, Ill. Sited on six acres, the facility will enable the college to more than double its current 263-student enrollment at the campus. Housing classrooms, teacher and administrator offices, medical and computer labs, a bookstore, and a library, the facility will feature state-of-the-art wireless technology. Project contractor Impact Strategies is initiating construction in September 2003 with completion expected in April 2004. The facility was designed by Arcturis Inc.
Northern Virginia Community College has selected Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering to design the Bisdorf Building addition and renovationon at its Alexandria, Va., campus. A 22,000-sf lab and classroom area will be expanded with the construction of a 75,000-sf building accommodating science labs, lecture halls, classrooms, conference rooms, student activity and service areas. The project is slated for completion in 2006.
The University of Texas at San Antonio has created the Center of Excellence in Biotechnology & Bioprocessing Education at Brooks City-Base. Sited in the newly renovated Building 175W, the 8,000-sf facility will train military and civilian personnel how to handle biosensors, vaccines, and other biological products.
