The 126,000-sq-ft multidisciplinary building is designed to be a creative hub for innovation by showcasing RIT’s technological and arts programs with five large classrooms, studios for music and dance, a flexible event theater and seven maker/shop spaces ranging from wood and metal shops to 3D printing, electronics and textiles.
Spanning 19 acres, the 330,000-sq-ft facility incorporates shell space of a former shopping mall department store—providing easy access to roadways and public transportation, ample parking and nearby amenities for patients.
In addition to the complexity of integrating advanced energy technologies such as geothermal into a century-old historic building, the project was made even more complicated by the need to move a 12,000-lb drilling rig below grade into a subfloor below the basement with no elevator service.
Located within historic Delaware Park, the project upgraded the original museum building with 43,500 sq ft of renovated spaces and expanded it with 67,000 net sq ft of new space and 60,000 sq ft of underground parking.
A decade after Superstorm Sandy flooded New York City’s largest transit rail yard complex, the combined Stillwell Avenue Yard, Avenue X Yard and Coney Island Yard now boast enhanced resilience to withstand future storms.
The 30-year contract will enable new transmission infrastructure in a country that expects a peak load power demand spike of 21,075 MW by 2033 from 1,606 MW reported in 2013, with the first major project set near Nairobi.