Higher Education

The Indiana University in Bloomington is renovating Myers Hall, built in 1937, to house the Institute for Cellular & Molecular Biology Education Center. The renovation will involve code-compliant infrastructure improvements, will add research space and increase teaching lab flexibility. Architects Payette Associates and Frank M. Adams Jr. & Associates designed the project, which includes a tri-level medical library stack area.

The University of Memphis awarded Wells Construction Corporation the contract to build specialized research laboratory rooms, designed by Ellers Oakley Chester and Rike, in the Biomedical Engineering Technology Laboratory. Construction of the $1,150,000 project is expected to take 210 days. The University is also investing $3,875,000 to bring fume hoods in many science and research buildings into compliance with current codes. The project was designed by Allen and Hoshall and is being built by Jameson Gibson Contractors. 

Indiana University  is building the new 187,425-gsf (112,455-asf) Graduate School of Business building on its Bloomington campus. Designed by architect BSA Design, the $56-million facility will feature advanced instruction and research technology and will house offices, classrooms, and special instruction facilities. The building will connect to the current School of Business. Completion is expected in late summer 2002.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center plans to build the 129,100-sf Education Building to provide interdisciplinary learning for health care professionals. The facility will integrate research knowledge, flexibility in teaching environment and technology, and state-of-the-art equipment and training. Cost for planning, design and construction of the Education building is estimated at $40-million.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HCS) is soliciting programming and architectural/engineering proposals for the Cancer Research and Treatment Center. Current plans for the potentially 180,000-sf facility, the second phase of the 80,000-sf Cancer Research Facility built in 1997, include two floors of wet lab research as well as facilities for patient holding, outpatient diagnosis and treatment, Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology, clinical trials, dry lab research, administration, medical offices, patient education, and comm

Responding to current and future outpatients demands, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center will develop the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center, a 36,000-sf facility with a single shared infrastructure for the two departments including recovery space, waiting room and reception area. Relieving pressure on existing surgical and imaging facilities, the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center will house six operating rooms; 24 prep/recovery bays; CAT Scan; MRI; Mammography; Ultrasound; the Pain Clinic; and office and support space.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) will build its first integrated research facility, the three-story, 70,000-sf UNM HSC Research Institute. The Institute will perform collaborative, interdisciplinary research on issues including the genetic predispositions, diseases, and environmental exposures that affect the 48% Hispanic and 9% Native American population of New Mexico. The facility is expected to cost $40-million to plan, design, and build.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) is planning the Children's Pavilion and Critical Care Wing, a nearly 400-sf facility integrating technology and research into a family and patient-centered environment. The project will house the following operations:  UNM Children's Hospital; operating rooms; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Children's Emergency Department; Adult Emergency Department; Adult Critical Care; Urgent Care and Trauma; Women's Birthing Center; Postpartum Services; Well Baby Nursery; and Respiratory Therapy.

San Diego State University is planning the Paseo, a mixed-use redevelopment of the campus's southeastern corner. Comprised of street-level retail and upper-floor offices and student/faculty housing, the project will include nine acres of underground parking and a light rail station already under construction. The project is part of the city of San Diego's "City of Villages" concept, which will feature retail and higher-density housing developments that are both pedestrian friendly and transit-oriented.

George Washington University is engaged in a $7.8-million project to upgrade its Foggy Bottom Campus communications network. Over 15,000 faculty, students, and administrators will use the network, which will be accompanied by the university's implementations of Internet telephony services, making the network accessible via desktop or laptop computers.

Georgetown University is developing the $168-million, three-building Southwest Quadrangle complex which began construction in September 2000. Slated for completion in spring of 2003, the project features a 1,200-seat dining hall, a 780-bed dormitory, an 815-car underground parking garage, and a chapel. General contractor for the project is Clark Construction.

Trinity College in Washington, D.C. is building the $20-million Trinity Center for Women and Girls in Sports.  Developed by Forrester Construction, the 58,000-sf sports complex consists of a fitness center, NCAA six-lane regulation swimming pool, six tennis courts, an indoor track, and a basketball arena seating 1,600 for games and 2,500 for nonsporting events. Soccer, field hockey and lacrosse fields will be located next to the center. Construction on the center began in November 2000 and is slated for completion in November 2002.

Emory University will house the new Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats, a collaboration of state and federal agencies and top researchers working together to combat bioterrorism. Partners in the center include Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, the Medical College of Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Tech, and the University of Georgia. Participating governmental agencies include the U.S.

Middlebury College of Vermont is building a new 143,000-sf library featuring environmentally-friendly and locally produced materials. Lee Kennedy Co. of Boston provided pre-construction services, now complete, for the project and has now initiated construction. Architects Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects LLC designed the library.

Catholic University of America is building the $26.5 million Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center, a three-story, 102,000-sf, T-shaped structure dubbed the “living room of the university." Housing a bookstore, student center, ballroom, six meeting rooms, campus offices, and a convenience store, the facility is being built by Clark Construction of Bethesda, Md. Construction began in October 2001 and is slated for completion in January 2003. The center will unite the existing three dining rooms on campus into one facility.