Campus Architecture Database: Business Instructional Facility

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Ill.

Building Type: Academic

Construction Type: New

Cost: $60-million

Square Footage: 160,000

Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; PSA-Dewberry

Contractor: Gilbane Building Company

Opened: 2008

This building for the university’s business college has solar panels, a green roof, natural ventilation, and other features intended to save $300,000 a year in energy costs and earn a gold or platinum LEED rating. The building houses classrooms, career-development and academic-counseling centers, student-program offices, a recruitment suite, a 300-seat auditorium, and spaces for students to meet and study.

(Photo: L. Brian Stauffer)

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