Science and Technology Building

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BUILDING
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA

Prior Affiliation:           As Director of Architecture at HEERY INTERNATIONAL
Project Role:                PROJECT DIRECTOR and ARCHITECT OF RECORD
Construction cost:     $19,444,512
Area:                              65,861 S.F.

The building provides classrooms, laboratories and research areas for Chemistry, Physics, Forensics and Computer Science. Additionally, the facility was conceived as a STEM environment, adding important gathering and collaboration spaces to the office, classroom and laboratory spaces in the building. The project was designed LEED Gold, and was a CM at Risk delivery.

The project was challenging due to the fact that it needed to function both as part of the science complex, but also as a landmark building on the main quad of the campus. The arrangement and materials of the building are intended to tie together two very different adjacent science buildings, one from the 1960’s and one from the 2000’s, as well as relating to the mid-20th Century neoclassical buildings of the main quadrangle.

At the same time, the budget was challenged by pricing increases around the time of bid combined with a reversion of significant project funds to the State, along with R&R funds, earlier in the project. So the project needed a detailed cost model that was kept updated as a living design document for the purpose of informing design decisions, and keeping the work scope aligned with the strategic goals that the Trustees had established for the building’s role within the science program and the campus fabric.