Lewis & Clark College is renovating the historic Albany Hall to house administrative space, offices, meeting and conference rooms, a café, and other academic, support, and social functions for faculty and students. Comprised of 14,700 sf distributed on three floors, the building includes a daylight basement. Built in 1929, the facility will become Albany Center and will provide temporary space for the college’s Bicentennial activities from 2003 to 2006, as well as office and classroom swing space to support the Howard Center construction project. All structural, mechanical, electrical, and communications systems will be renovated or replaced.
A 12,000-sf addition to the south side required the removal of an existing greenhouse and the construction of a replacement greenhouse on the Olin Center for Physics and Chemistry deck. The top floor of the building will be removed for the creation of a great hall. Construction began in January of 2002 and is slated for completion in January of 2003. The project is expected meet the gold level of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification as established by the United States Green Building Council.
