Cornell University will open the $143 million Physical Sciences Building in November of 2010. The four-story, 197,000-sf facility provides classrooms, faculty offices, teaching labs, a 120-seat amphitheater, and an atrium. A basement level houses research laboratories for the departments of Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Applied and Engineering Physics. Constructed on isolated slabs, the labs are built to minimize vibration and interference from electromagnetic fields. Designed by Koetter, Kim & Associates, the facility supports interdisciplinary research in nanoscale science, x-ray and accelerator physics, chemical biology, and biological physics. The Physical Sciences Building will also house the Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC) for Nanoscale Science. Ground was broken on the project in 2008.
Cornell Completes Physical Sciences Building
Ithaca, N.Y.
