University of Wyoming Breaks Ground on Engineering Education and Research Building

The University of Wyoming will break ground in October of 2016 on the $105 million Engineering Education and Research Building in Laramie. Designed by ZGF for maximum flexibility, the four-story, 100,000-sf facility will feature drop-down utilities and services to create reconfigurable laboratories for collaborative teaching and research. Built by GE Johnson Construction, the project will include a vibration-mitigated lab, an entrepreneurship center, three active learning classrooms, and a student innovation center (makerspace) with prototyping and fabrication technologies. The facility will also house an interdisciplinary fluids teaching lab, an advanced combustion suite, a drilling simulation center, and labs for materials science, bioengineering, and computation. The laboratory design consultant for the project is Research Facilities Design (RFD). Completion is expected in summer of 2019.