The Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building on campus plans to be a high-performance science headquarters for a wide variety of faculty and students when it’s completed next month. The $65-million project will be part of the University’s Lorry I. Lokey Science Complex, connecting several science buildings on campus.
The project, which began in August 2010, was largely financed by private donors, along with federal and state grants, including $30 million in state bonds, according to the project’s website.
Other features will include:
- 103,000 square feet of laboratory and collaboration spaces
- More than 30,000 square feet designated to life and material science laboratories
- Green roof, including 28 solar panels for preheating water.
- A $2.7-million MRI machine
- Four stories, plus a basement to house mechanical equipment
- 46 faculty offices
- 10 meeting rooms
- 58 percent less energy consumption than buildings of similar size and function
