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.