The University of Pennsylvania Riverview Campus master plan was completed in April 2001 by Cambridge, Mass.-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates. The 20-acre Philadelphia Civic Center site will be transformed into a mixed-use healthcare and research center serving the needs of the Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.
The University of California, San Francisco's new 43-acre research campus at Mission Bay is under construction. Phase one includes a 385,000-sf research building; a 165,000-sf center for human genetics, developmental biology, and developmental neuroscience; and a campus community center sporting food courts, a health club and pool, and a library'all scheduled to open by 2003. The developer of the huge project is Catellus.
University of Kentucky-Lexington's new Biomedical/Biological Sciences Research Building is currently in the schematic design phase. The 200,000-sf building is scheduled for occupancy in 2004. HERA, Inc., of St. Louis, is providing lab planning, programming, and design services for the facility. A.M. Kinney, of Cincinnati, is the prime architect and engineer, and Philadelphia-based Venturi Scott Brown Associates is the design architect.
Western Michigan University's new College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Building has been designed and engineered by HarleyEllis of Southfield, Mich. in collaboration with design consultant Rossetti Architects of Birmingham, Mich. It houses teaching, lab, and support spaces for the College's six departments. The $56-million, 350,000-sf facility is situated within the University's newly developed Business-Technology Research Park in Kalamazoo. The building is designed with three wings radiating from a central 'hub' that houses lecture halls and common areas.
Drew University commissioned Philadelphia-based A/E firm, Ewing Cole Cherry Brott to provide programming and schematic design services for the renovation and expansion of Seminary Hall, built in 1898. The building is the focal point of the Theological School. By renovating the existing structure and constructing a new addition, the new building program totaling 34,000 sf will include provisions for accessibility throughout the building, a large chapel space, seminar rooms, additional classrooms, preaching space, faculty offices, study/commuter lounge, and commons area.
The University of Pennsylvania has selected construction management firm R.M. Shoemaker Co. of West Conshohocken, Pa., to build Steinhardt Hall, the new Hillel Jewish Student Life Center on the campus of the University. Groundbreaking was scheduled for October 2001. The three-story, 35,000-sf facility will provide a new academic, cultural, and religious complex for the more than 6,000 Jewish students at the University. It will contain a kosher kitchen and 386-seat kosher dining room, a 320-seat auditorium, and a 174-seat Beit Midrash.
Northern Kentucky University’s new Natural Science Building is under construction, with completion scheduled for fall 2002. HERA, Inc., of St. Louis, has provided lab planning and design services for the four-story facility, which was designed by Omni Architects of Lexington, Ky. The building will function as a collaborative learning center for the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, and geology. It will feature adaptable lab spaces and a mix of department labs and offices on each floor.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has new Learning Laboratories for complex systems. Designed by Cambridge Seven Associates, the renovated and expanded 50,000-sf historic Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (Building 33) now provides highly flexible and open space for student/faculty team work on projects of varying size and complexity. The 6,000-sf three-story Hangar supports work on unusually large-sized aerospace assignments and independent student projects. William A.
The University of California, Merced, will occupy a newly-completed 68,000, five-story office building "University Square" in Bakersfield. The Kern County Superintendent of Schools is also a tenant. Classrooms occupy the first two floors, with the upper floors housing support offices. An adjacent parking structure is also part of the project designed by Ware Malcomb of Irvine, Calif. The developer is The Allen Group. The general contractor was S.C. Anderson Inc. of Bakersfield.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is planning several new academic facilities. The Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer Information and Intelligence Sciences will unite computer science and electrical engineering programs in a 447,000-sf building scheduled for completion in 2004. The Dreyfus Building, housing the chemistry department, will be gutted and renovated by 2003. Student housing for about 1,000 students will be provided in two new dorms. The 130,000-sf Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center is scheduled to open in 2002.
The University of North Carolina-Charlotte has selected Perkins & Will to design a $23.1 million, 70,000-sf graduate research complex at the new Charlotte Institute for Technology Innovation; construction is scheduled to begin in fall 2002. A $26.1 million, 103,000-sf general classroom facility, designed by LS3P, will also commence construction at the same time.
Strayer University has plans to expand and relocate its 1,200-student Arlington campus to a planned three-story building located on top of the Court House Metro station. The university will occupy the top two floors (30,000 sf) of the 54,000-sf building. The project, which is set to open in fall of 2002, is under development by the Arlington-based Jenco Group. Construction is expected to get under way in fall 2001.
The University of North Carolina-Charlotte began construction in July 2001 on a new 184,000-sf, $33.2-million Science and Technology building, part of a seven-building expansion of the 1.2 million-sf campus to a total of 2 million sf. At build-out, enrollment is expected to increase from the current 17,000 students to 25,000 students.
Tufts University's Jeharis Familly Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Research is under construction at the University's Boston campus. The $65 million, 175,000-sf structure will house the School of Nutrition and Science Policy as well as biomedical research space. Completion is anticipated in summer of 2002. Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc., of Cambridge, designed the building. Tufts has a $9 million psychology building under construction at its Medford campus. The 35,000-sf facility is slated for completion in fall 2001.
The University of Texas is renovating and expanding three buildings at its main campus in Austin. The $40 million project will involve Benedict, Mezes, and Batts halls, linking the structures with new construction and modernizing existing classrooms. The new Austin office of 3D/I is in charge of the project, which is slated for completion in approximately two years.
