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UC Riverside To Build Physical Sciences Facility
Construction is scheduled to start on the University of California Riverside’s Physical Sciences 1 in late 2002. The planned 129,000-gsf (73,000-asf) multidisciplinary chemical sciences facility has a budget of $49,010,000.
UC Riverside Plans New Psychology Building
The University of California Riverside has completed the pre-design phase of its new Psychology Building. The $33.7-million, 86,526-gsf (51,915-asf) facility will house dry and wet instructional and research labs, faculty and administrative offices, and support for the Department of Psychology.
University of Kansas Develops Learned Hall Addition
The University of Kansas is building a privately funded five- to six-story addition to Learned Hall, enabling consolidation of the School of Engineering's departments and programs in one facility. The addition will feature a new main entrance leading to a media-rich 250-seat lecture classroom/auditorium and administrative offices. Designed by Gould Evans Associates of Lawrence, Kan., the facility will include a 2,000-sf Environmental Engineering and Science Laboratory, 15 new labs, 25 GTA offices and 38 faculty offices.
University of Kansas Plans Second Edwards Campus Building
The University of Kansas is planning to build a second building on the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. Designed by architect Gould Evans Goodman Associates of Overland Park, the facility will house offices, traditional classrooms, tiered high technology classrooms, computer labs, an executive-style boardroom, administrative and faculty offices, a lobby, and a cylindrical 240-seat auditorium. Slated for completion in April of 2004, the project's budget is $17,800,000 with a $14,850,000 construction contract.
University of Michigan Builds High Bay Addition
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is engaged in a $126-million renovation and expansion of the IST High Bay Building. Located on the north side of the building, the 31,000-gsf addition will house Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Ultrafast Optical Science lab and office space, as well as research space for the Department of Materials Science. Consisting of a basement, two main floors and a mechanical penthouse with all new equipment, the addition will be powered by a new electrical substation to relieve the existing loads of the High Bay Building’s substation.