Higher Education

The Georgia Institute of Technology is building the $23-million U.A. Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Building. Designed by Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), the 90,000-sf research and educational facility began construction in April of 2002 and is slated for completion in July 2003. The building will house the Georgia Tech and Emory University Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Contractor for the project is Archer-Western Contractors, Ltd.  

Georgia Institute of Technology is renovating and expanding the J.S. Coon Building to provide a modern and accessible new home for the School of Psychology. The $9-million, 73,000-sf project includes complete environmental remediation and construction of an 11,000-sf addition and a 4,200-sf mezzanine in the former shop wing. Architect Jova Daniels Busby has completed 35% of the design of the facility, which began construction in October 2001 and is slated for completion in February 2003.

Colorado State University celebrated the completion of the $16-million Chemistry/Biological Sciences Instructional Labs on October 11. Designed by OZ Architecture, a firm with studios in Denver, Boulder, and Summit County, the 78,000-sf building forms a dramatic arched bridge connecting the existing Chemistry and Anatomy/Zoology buildings and acts as a new campus gateway.

PurdueUniversity is developing the 130,000-sf Jerry S. Rawls Hall, the centerpiece in the Krannert School of Management’s $55-million “Krannert at the Frontier” campaign. The four-story project will house electronically equipped classrooms, a professional career center, a multimedia-based auditorium, computer labs, distance learning facilities, and a reception area.

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.

PurdueUniversity is building the Burton D. Morgan Center, a 31,000-sf entrepreneurship center and incubator housing The Purdue Engineering Projects in Community Service, the New Venture Lab, the Innovation Realization Lab, and the Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition. The project will include construction of a 72-seat lecture hall, a presentation room, and several conference and break-out rooms. The center will be used by multidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate students engaged in new product conceptualization, research marketing, and technological problem solving.

Purdue   Universityis developing the Bowen Civil High Performance Structures Lab, a large-scale laboratory for the Civil Engineering department.

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 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, 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 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.

Western   Washington   University (WWU) is building a new 100,000-sf Student Recreation Center on its Bellingham campus. Groundbreaking for the facility, designed by Seattle firm BJSS/Duarte Bryant, took place in early March. The recreation center, slated for completion in fall of 2003, will house a three court gym, multi-activity court, six lane lap pool and sauna, weight and fitness training areas, elevated jogging track, and a rock climbing wall. WWU has also opened its new Campus Services Facility, which began construction in April of 2001.

PurdueUniversity is expanding the School of Chemical Engineering with a 96,000-sf addition. Part of the Purdue University Schools of Engineering Strategic Facilities Plan, the expansion includes an interactive multimedia learning center, a teaching lab for chemical engineering fundamentals, and an integrated lab complex for chemical and polymer engineering. The project will also house biomedical, catalysis and surface science research clusters. The addition is designed as flexible laboratory space to foster teamwork, interactive discussion and innovative research.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing Engineering Laboratory II, a $20,616,000 facility providing graduate research laboratories for the Chemical Engineering and Civil/Environmental Engineering Departments. As phase II of the Engineering and Computer Science Complex, the facility is being built just south of the project’s first phase, the Computer Science Building. Designed by Ellenzweig Associates and Whitney Atwood Norcross, the 60,000-sf building will feature a 45-seat distance learning center and a 195-seat auditorium.

American University will break ground in January 2003 on the $55-million, 130,000-sf Katzen Arts Center. Site preparation began in June for the center, which will house the university's art programs and will include a 30,000-sf gallery, a 200-seat recital hall, and a 500-space underground parking garage. General contractor for the project is Holder Construction. Additionally, American University began developing the Greenberg Theater in March.