Higher Education

Kirklees College is building the 2.65 acre Waterfront complex in Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. The 269,000-sf project includes a nine-story academic building and a five-story library and student services facility. The Waterfront campus was designed by Broadway Malyan and is expected to attain BREEAM sustainable design certification. A new engineering building is also being constructed for a total investment of $126 million. Occupancy of both projects is expected in September of 2012.

Brigham and Women's Hospital opened the 5,700-gsf Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite in December of 2011 in Boston. As the world’s first three-bay operating suite to house MRI, PET/CT, Ultrasound, and Angiography in one place, along with surgical navigation tools and image registering and integration software, AMIGO offers significant advancements to developing image-guided surgical treatment procedures. 

Ohio State University Medical Center is building the $1 billion Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in Columbus. The 17-story, 276-bed tower will provide integrated research and treatment facilities including critical care beds, laboratories, and medical offices. Ground was broken on the project in June of 2010 and completion is expected in 2014.

Fitchburg State University is building a $57 million, 57,000-sf addition to the Condike Science Building in Fitchburg, Mass. The completed complex will provide 100,000 sf of science labs and lecture halls for biology, chemistry, physics, and geophysical sciences. The facility will also include a vivarium, oceanography and hydrology suites, a greenhouse, and a three-story atrium. Occupancy is expected in fall of 2013.

Cornell University is partnering with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a $2 billion science college in New York City. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the 2.1 million-sf research and innovation campus is to be located on Roosevelt Island and will include classrooms, labs, auditoriums, and housing. Classes will begin in 2012 in leased facilities, with occupancy of the first phase of construction expected in 2017. Complete build-out is expected by 2027. 

Texas Tech completed construction of the $70 million Rawls College of Business Administration in December of 2011. Located in Lubbock, Texas, the 147,500-sf facility provides technology-rich group learning spaces to support a pedagogy based on teamwork in business. The building includes classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, student services, and faculty offices. Ground was broken on the project in October of 2009 and full occupancy is expected in spring of 2012. LEED sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility.

The University of South Carolina School of Medicine is building the 90,000-sf Health Sciences Education Building in Greenville. The architect for the building was Design Strategies, and CO Architects and McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture designed the building fit-up . Contractors involved in the project include Rodgers Construction; SteelFab; and Warco Construction. Completion is expected in July of 2012.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s $112 million biochemistry complex was completed in December of 2011. A new six-story research tower was constructed and several existing buildings were extensively renovated. Designed to promote interaction and collaboration, the facility provides 20 biochemistry and biomolecular chemistry research labs, classrooms, lecture halls, and a rodent vivarium. 

Louisiana State University broke ground on the $20 million Animal and Food Sciences Laboratory Building in December of 2011 in Baton Rouge. Designed to promote interaction and interdisciplinary collaboration, the two-story, 48,000-sf building will house laboratories and offices for the departments of Veterinary Science, Food Science, and Animal Sciences. Construction will begin in January of 2012 with completion expected by summer of 2013.

Okanagan College opened the $28 million Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation in December of 2011. Located in Penticton, British Columbia, the zero-energy, zero-waste facility features the largest photovoltaic solar array on a non-utility building in Canada. Supporting education, research, and training in sustainable design, the building includes interactive instrumentation for the monitoring of building systems. The facility also houses the Okanagan Research and Innovation Centre. 

Rush University Medical Center opened a $654 million hospital in Chicago in December of 2011. Designed by Perkins+Will, the 14-story, 806,000-sf tower houses the Mary Jo and John Boler Center for Advanced Imaging, an emergency department with 60 treatment bays, 42 technology-rich procedure rooms, and the McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response. Construction began on the 304-bed facility in fall of 2008. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the project.

Glasgow College is planning $315 million in new facilities in downtown Glasgow in the United Kingdom. The project comprises 650,000 sf of new buildings to create the City Centre Campus, as well as extensive redevelopment and expansion of the Riverside Campus. Construction is expected to begin in summer of 2013 and reach completion by 2016. 

Colorado State University will begin construction in June of 2012 on a $19.5 million renovation of the Animal Sciences Building in Fort Collins. Plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and telecommunications systems will be replaced in the 41,558-sf building, which will house renovated teaching labs and classrooms.

The University of Arizona will begin building a $135 million cancer center in summer of 2012. Part of UA's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the facility will be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. The six-story, 250,000-sf clinical and translational research building will be operated in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. Completion is expected in mid-2014. 

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee initiated a $53 million renovation and expansion in December of 2011 to create a new facility for the School of Freshwater Sciences. Construction will begin by May of 2012 and reach completion by November of 2013. The existing Great Lakes WATER Institute will be remodeled and expanded to house ecological research laboratories and offices.