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Eastern Illinois University Completes Booth Library Renovation and Addition
Eastern Illinois University has completed the restoration, renovation and addition to the 157,000-sf Booth Library. The $16,269,026 project was built by contractor Williams Brothers Construction and include a 134,200-sf renovation and a 12,800-sf addition. Chicago architectural firm Holabird & Root designed the facility, which received the 2002 AIA Chicago Interior Architecture Award. Originally built in 1948, an addition in 1968 provided some space for growth.
Georgia Institute of Technology Builds Environmental Science & Technology Building
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is building the 288,000-gsf Ford Motor Company Environmental Science & Technology Building. Designed by architects Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, and built by Archer Western Contractors, the building will house the College of Engineering, the College of Sciences, and the Advanced Technology Development Center. Construction of the $58-million laboratory and research facility began in August of 2002 and is slated for completion this October.
University of Massachusetts Opens Alfond Management Center
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management (ISOM) will celebrate the grand opening of the four-floor, 47,000-sf Harold Alfond Management Center on October 11. Designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge, the $11,800,000 center is a three-story expansion of the ISOM facility and will house 4 caserooms, a financing training room with Bloomberg connectivity, computer labs, teleconferencing facilities, breakout rooms and offices. Fontaine Brothers of Springfield, Mass. was the project contractor.
Notre Dame High Completes High Tech Manley Hall
Notre Dame High School completed the $14-million Manley Hall in time for the fall 2002 school year. The three-story, 34,000-sf hall houses the most advanced computer labs in any Silicon Valley school, as well as a new library, three science labs, eleven new classrooms, and administrative offices. Designed by Anderson-Brule Architects of San Jose, the project was constructed by Blach Construction of Santa Clara.
Western Washington University Develops Communications Facility
Western Washington University, located in Bellingham, began work on its new Communications Facility in mid-August, with a formal groundbreaking to follow in October. Designed by Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership of Seattle, the 130,000-gsf, four-story facility will provide additional general classrooms for the university as well as instructional space for the departments of Physics, Computer Science, Communications and Journalism.