Higher Education

UGL Services, a division of UGL Limited, was selected by Brevard College in December of 2010 to provide integrated facilities services. The renewable contract extends to June of 2015. The 35-person UGL Services staff provides custodial, housekeeping, landscaping and athletics field maintenance, and building operations and maintenance, as well as renovation and construction services for the 650-student campus that includes 38 buildings and covers 120 acres.

The University of Chicago will initiate construction on the $215 million William Eckhardt Research Center in September of 2011. The 265,000-sf facility will provide laboratories for astronomy, chemistry, physics, and astrophysics. Supporting advanced nanoscale reseach and development, the seven-story project will house the Institute for Molecular Engineering and will include two floors below ground. The Institute for Molecular Engineering will be operated in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory.

The University of Texas at Arlington completed the $126 million Engineering Research Building in December of 2010. The 234,000-gsf facility houses classrooms, research and teaching labs, a science and engineering library, collaboration space, faculty offices, and space for the departments of biomedical engineering and computer science. The project was designed by Page Southerland Page with RFD (Research Facilities Design) as laboratory design consultant.

College of the Holy Cross attained LEED Gold sustainable design certification for the $64 million Integrated Science Complex in December of 2010. Located in Worcester, Mass., the four-story facility consists of the Park B. and Linda Smith Laboratories, a new four-story building, and the renovated Haberlin Hall. The project includes numerous features that produce an energy savings of more than 52% in cooling and 39% in heating, lowering total energy consumption by more than 31% over industry standard baseline. Other energy efficient and sustainability features include:

The University of Wisconsin will begin construction in 2012 on a second research park in Madison. The project will create 4 million sf of laboratory and technology space. The mixed-use development will include residential and retail space in an innovative urban setting.

The Catholic College of Mandeville broke ground in December of 2010 on a $400 million campus in Williamsfield, Jamaica. The facility is sited on 11 acres and will provide state-of-the-art classrooms for 2,000 students.

The University of Iowa is engaged in a $60 million expansion of its Dental Science Building in Iowa City. The 33,000-sf project will house the Center for Clinical Excellence and offices for geriatric dentistry and endodontics. The general contractor is Larson Construction of Independence, Iowa. Completion is expected in fall of 2011.

The University of Alberta will build a $26.5 million stem cell research facility in Edmonton. Supported by $10.6 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the 10,000-sf regenerative medicine laboratory will be located on the seventh floor of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation. Completion is expected in 2013.

The $32.9 million Wayne T. and Mary T. Hockmeyer Hall was recently constructed at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. The building gives Purdue’s renowned Structural Biology group the space needed to continue to be at the forefront of this field. The 65,690-sf facility includes research laboratories and a BSL-3 suite with embedded electron microscopy.

Umpqua Community College is building the Danny Lang Teaching, Learning and Event Center in Roseburg, Ore. The $6.8 million facility will house the Southern Oregon Wine Institute and the college's viticulture and enology programs. The Lang Center will provide two labs, a classroom, a tasting room, an event center, a grape-crushing pad, a kitchen, a fermentation room, and three wine cellars. Construction began on the facility in September of 2010 with completion expected in September of 2011. The project is supported by $4.25 million in federal stimulus funding.

Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine broke ground on the first phase of a $74 million Small Animal Teaching Hospital complex in December of 2010. A 34,000-sf education wing is slated for completion in spring of 2012. The second phase of construction will deliver a 200,000-sf Small Animal Teaching Hospital in 2014. The project was designed by Foil Wyatt Architects and Jova/Daniels/Busby.

Texas A&M University will begin construction in late 2011 on the Urban Living Laboratory in Dallas. The mixed-use development will provide a living laboratory for sustainable design with residential, retail, office, and hotel space. The $127 million project will utilize sensors to collect data on building systems and technologies. The public-private development will be built by Realty Appreciation. The first phase of construction includes 300 apartment units. Subsequent construction phases will create a 1.1 million-sf sustainable community. 

The University of Nebraska Medical Center broke ground on the $30 million Truhlsen Eye Institute in Omaha in December of 2010. Housing research and clinical space for the department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, the 47,000-sf facility will feature a diagnostic imaging center and specialty clinics. Completion is expected in 2012. A planned second phase of construction will provide surgical suites.

The $700 million Singapore University of Technology and Design is slated for completion in 2013. Developed in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school will provide interdisciplinary education in engineering, architecture, and information systems and will support the development of new teaching paradigms. Ground was broken on the project in July of 2010.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison opened the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in December of 2010. The 300,000-sf facility houses research offices, an atrium, and flexible dry, wet, and combination laboratories. Ground was broken on the interdisciplinary biomedical research building in May of 2008. Built with four stories above ground and one below, the project will support collaborative research in biotechnology, health science, nanotechnology, engineering, and stem cell research.