SUNY Polytechnic Institute Constructs ZEN Building

SUNY Polytechnic is building the $191 million Zero-Energy Nanotechnology (ZEN) building in Albany, N.Y. Designed by EYP Architecture & Engineering to support clean energy research, the 360,000-sf facility will provide labs, classrooms, offices, and a large central atrium. The building will also house the new data center for the state of New York and the headquarters of the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium. CommerceHub will occupy 50,000 sf in the building. Construction manager Whiting-Turner began work on the six-story project in January of 2014 and completion is expected in mid-2015. SUNY Polytechnic was created by the merger in September of 2014 of the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering and the SUNY Institute of Technology.