Selected Higher Education Projects Under Construction or in Design

It may not be booming like it was three years ago, but the higher education market is definitely breathing across the Tri State region. Here is a look at some of the most notable projects:

City University of New York (CUNY)

• At City College in Manhattan work is underway on the 200,000-sq.-ft. Advanced Science Research Center, a state of the art science, research and laboratory facility for the university. A new 200,000-sq.-ft. for City College will go up next to the center. Together the projects will cost about $700 million.

• A 60,000-sq.-ft. Botany and Earth sciences building is under construction at Lehman College. Designed by Perkins+Will, the facility is seeking LEED Gold certification.

• Turner Construction is managing the construction of $640 million, 620,000-sq.-ft. academic building for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. The building will consolidate space scattered over four Westside buildings.

• At Bronx Community College a 140,000-sq.-ft. instructional building designed by Robert Stern was topped off in January.

• In Lower Manhattan, the long delayed $320,000 million Fiterman Hall for the Borough of Manhattan Community College is finally under construction. The 300,000-sq.-ft facility will provide much needed classrooms, computer facilities and offices for the space constrained college.

• Design is completed for a Towe Center for Performance Arts at Brooklyn College, which will replace Gershwin Hall. The $190 million project received a substantial gift from Leonard Towe.

• Perkins Eastman has completed the design of a new 300,000-sq.-ft. academic / science building for New York City College of Technology on the site of College’s Klitgord Center, at 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn. WSP Cantor Seinuk is working on the project.

Rutgers University, New Jersey

• A $25 million, 60,000-sq.-ft. Health Sciences Center in underway at the College Avenue campus.

• The Center for Integrated Proteomics Technologies, a $47 million research and laboratory facility housing the University’s Protein Data Bank, is in construction on the Busch campus.

• Campus wide $15 million of classroom improvement are in process.

• Bidding opened in January on a 70,000-sq.-ft. housing project with space for 500 students on the Busch campus.

• In late February bidding began for the Livingston Dining Commons, a $24.7 million 60,000-sq.-ft. multi-story dining facility to replace Tillett Hall on the Livingston campus

• Planning is underway on a multi-building complex to house 1,500 students on the Livingston campus and for an $85 million project to relocate the business school to a recently purchased office tower in downtown Newark. The cost of the project includes the building purchase.

Cornell University, New York

• Construction is in progress on Paul Milstein Hall, a $55 million addition to the Architecture Art and Planning building. Designed by Rem Koolhaus, the structure is cantilevered over University Avenue.

• A $19 million addition is being built at the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art. The addition was designed by the museum’s original architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners and is based on the original I.M. Pei design for the museum.

• Construction will be completed this year on the $80 million Animal Health Diagnostics Laboratory and a $141 million Physical Science facility.

• Bidding will start shortly on the Food Sciences complex at Cornell. The $89 million project will renovate a classroom building and building a new research facility. >>

• Fernow and Rice Halls will undergo complete gut rehabilitations and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, a large sprawling building, is slated for a phased interior renovation.

Princeton University, New Jersey

• Turner Construction is managing the construction of a $280 million, 263,000-sq.-ft. Chemistry building, which is slated for completion in October.

• Work is also proceeding on the Streicker Bridge, an $8 million pedestrian walkway linking the new chemistry building to the Icahn Laboratory across Washington Road.

• Design has been completed on a new neuroscience and psychology buildings, housing 238,000 gross square feet of new research, office and instructional space. Construction is pending confirmation of funding.

• In design are a new 40,000-sq.-ft. high performance computing research center on the Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment for the School of Engineering and the Lew Center for the Arts.

• A 10-year phased renovation is planned for the Firestone Library but it will be at least 2-years before the start of major construction.

University of Connecticut

• Bidding is slated for the spring for the new School of Social Science Humanities complex which is comprised of two building, a $45 million classroom and lecture hall building soon to be followed by its companion, a $50 million structure. Construction is slated to start in the summer.

• Construction is underway on a $51 million 88,000-sq.-ft. stem cell research center.

Columbia

• Turner Construction is managing construction of the 190,000-sq.-ft. Columbia University Interdisciplinary Science Building.

Rockefeller University

• Renovation of Smith Hall is slated for completion in June. Turner Construction is managing the project.