The six-story Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus houses classrooms, lecture halls, offices, and a below-grade research core. The cladding consists of a 45,000 sq ft rain screen comprised of approximately 2,500...
MIT’s Main Group Buildings, dedicated in 1916, include Building 10 with its prominent limestone- and copper-clad Great Dome. SGH investigated leakage into the Barker Library below the Great Dome and developed a durable repair solution...
Recognizing sports and fitness are important to the campus community, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) wanted to update its current facilities by constructing a new sports and recreation center. The facility includes a precast concrete...
This seventeen-story structure is one of several architecturally significant, mid-century modernist concrete buildings designed by Josep Lluís Sert for Boston University’s campus. The tower's concrete facade deteriorated over time,...
To expand and modernize their Academy of Entertainment and Technology Campus, Santa Monica College undertook a project to construct two new buildings and renovate an existing one. The project brings innovative classrooms, production facilities,...
St. Ambrose University undertook its largest capital project in the university’s 135-year history by constructing a new, 80,000 sq ft wellness and recreation center. The project—including a new fieldhouse, exercise areas, dance...
The Math Corner block currently houses Sloan Mathematical Center, Margaret Jacks Hall, and the corner’s original building, Jordan Hall. The building features sandstone cladding and clay tile roofs, typical of Stanford’s historic Main...
Originally constructed as the Graduate School of Business, the Lathrop Library was converted to a library and auditorium in 2015. The building is distinguished by exposed cast-in-place concrete facades, bronze-anodized aluminum windows and...
Harvard Kennedy School was looking to reinvent the campus and undertook a major project to add new flexible classrooms and collaboration areas, improve connectivity between the existing buildings, and revive their central courtyard. Three new...
Lowell House, a neo-Georgian building constructed in 1930, is Harvard University’s largest undergraduate residence hall. As part of a larger dormitory renewal program, the university undertook a two-year project at Lowell House to renovate...
In this article, Daniel Clark discusses the university’s desire to address water leakage concerns at the 1940s-vintage fountain, which serves as a prominent landmark on campus. SGH performed condition assessments to investigate these...
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) wanted to bring its design programs — Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and Building and Construction Technology — together in one creatively designed building...
The Integrated Design Building (IDB) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will be the first, large-scale, mass timber building in the Northeastern U.S. when completed. At four stories and 87,000 sf, the building will provide offices,...
West Hall, one of the many historic campus buildings designed by Albert Kahn (one of the leading American industrial architects of his day), is located on South University Avenue on the University of Michigan’s Central Campus. The building...
By: Emily Hopps, Carl Jay, Shawmut Design and Construction, Benjamin Markham, Acentech Inc., Gary Tondorf-Dick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since 1916, the Great Dome has been the symbol of the MIT campus. In 1942, MIT covered the oculus skylight in the Dome, resulting in the Barker Library Reading Room being solely lit by electric lights and an overall dim lighting level. MIT...
Alternative project delivery systems are growing in popularity for building construction and renovation projects with universities and other owners. While some owners are tentative about using an alternative delivery method, others are engaging...
Abstract: The recent addition of critical library space at the Rhode Island School of Design afforded the opportunity to firmly establish the importance of value engineering in assisting the architect and the owner in significantly improving a...
Abstract: Great companies are built with great employees, making recruiting an issue that touches all growing companies. But for U.S. engineering firms, one major recruiting challenge is the shrinking pool of talented graduates.
Abstract: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) W33 Cage Building is a 32,000 square foot athletic facility, located on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The facility is a functional space for many of MIT's athletic...