Dartmouth College Plans Expansion of Science Facilities

Dartmouth College is renovating and expanding its campus science facilities. The 270,000-sf, multi-phased project, designed by Centerbrook Architects of Centerbrook, Ct., and managed by Boston-based George B.H. Macomber Company, provides state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities for a four-building complex including Steele Laboratory, Wilder Laboratory, and Fairchild Tower and the Fairchild Building. Steele Laboratory will undergo complete internal renovations and a new mechanical penthouse will be added. General chemistry teaching labs will be replaced, and two floors of faculty research labs will be built. Specialty labs include cleanrooms and environmental rooms, and a “non-metallic” lab for the use of a mass spectrometer by the Geochemistry Department. Wilder Laboratory, the physics and astronomy building, will have renovated labs, offices, and classrooms, and two astronomy observation domes. A 20,000-sf addition provides a new ADA-compliant main entrance, as well as offices, labs, and several student break-out areas.