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Purdue Renovates Historic Pfendler Hall
Purdue University is renovating the historic 101-year old David C. Pfendler Hall, formerly the Agricultural and Entomology Hall. The project includes a 25,000-sf addition, with the interior and exterior of the existing structure to be renovated and restored in the Beaux-arts Neoclassical style. The facility will house administrative offices for the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, the Agricultural Development Office, classrooms, research labs, and a 150-seat auditorium.
East High School Upgrades Lighting System
East High School in Williamsville, N.Y., worked with Trautman Associates of Buffalo and Lumen Power Sources, a representative of H.E. Williams, to upgrade the high school's lighting system.
Georgia Tech Builds Biomedical Engineering Facility
The Georgia Institute of Technology is building the $23-million U.A. Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Building. Designed by Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), the 90,000-sf research and educational facility began construction in April of 2002 and is slated for completion in July 2003. The building will house the Georgia Tech and Emory University Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Contractor for the project is Archer-Western Contractors, Ltd.
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.