Previous |
Next |
October 8, 2007, 01:32 PM ET
Shop Talk: Gold for Clark U., Construction in Fargo, Demolition at Wesleyan U.
Clark University’s Lasry Center for Bioscience (Clark U. image)
Gold for Clark U.: Clark University’s Lasry Center for Bioscience, completed in 2005, has earned a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. According to the Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper in Worcester, Mass., it took the university and the building’s architects and contractors two years to submit and win approval for the LEED paperwork. The building was designed by Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, Mass.
Projects for Fargo: North Dakota State University has two projects underway in downtown Fargo. One, which officially began Friday, is the renovation and expansion of the former Lincoln Mutual building to house the university’s architecture and landscape-architecture programs. The other is construction of a new $15-million building for the College of Business and the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics. The structure will occupy the site of the old Pioneer Mutual Life building. Groundbreaking is scheduled for Thursday.
Wesleyan U. will lose Shanklin Hall (Wesleyan U. image)
Site for Wesleyan U.: Wesleyan University has chosen a campus site for a large new Molecular and Life Sciences Building, due to open eight years from now, but the project will require the university to tear down a 1928 laboratory building, Shanklin Hall. The new building, to be designed by Payette, will cost at least $107-million in 2007 dollars — and possibly as much as $160-million — according to the university’s student newspaper, The Wesleyan Argus. The paper says the university hoped to save Shanklin, but could find nowhere else to put the new building that made sense.
Add Your Comment
Commenting is closed.