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Georgia Institute of Technology is renovating and expanding the J.S. Coon Building to provide a modern and accessible new home for the School of Psychology. The $9-million, 73,000-sf project includes complete environmental remediation and construction of an 11,000-sf addition and a 4,200-sf mezzanine in the former shop wing. Architect Jova Daniels Busby has completed 35% of the design of the facility, which began construction in October 2001 and is slated for completion in February 2003.

Colorado State University celebrated the completion of the $16-million Chemistry/Biological Sciences Instructional Labs on October 11. Designed by OZ Architecture, a firm with studios in Denver, Boulder, and Summit County, the 78,000-sf building forms a dramatic arched bridge connecting the existing Chemistry and Anatomy/Zoology buildings and acts as a new campus gateway.

PurdueUniversity is developing the 130,000-sf Jerry S. Rawls Hall, the centerpiece in the Krannert School of Management’s $55-million “Krannert at the Frontier” campaign. The four-story project will house electronically equipped classrooms, a professional career center, a multimedia-based auditorium, computer labs, distance learning facilities, and a reception area.

PurdueUniversity is renovating the Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library, converting 60,000-sf to an advanced “Electronic Library”. The Walter and Saraellen Veon Electronic Reference Center, the centerpiece of the library, will contain a visitor service desk and a general study area housing 48 computers. The Center for Scholarly Communication will house electronic equipment to assist research and multimedia presentation. The main entry to the 18,000-sf ground floor will also be relocated. The facility is expected to open in February of 2003, with a grand re-opening in April.

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.