Penn State University College of Engineering Buildings
About
THIS PROJECT
The Engineering Collaboration and Research Education (ECoRE) Building and Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) Building are the focal points of the Penn State College of Engineering Masterplan Phase I to replace their existing buildings. Between these two buildings, situated on West Campus, there is nearly 400,000 SF of research and teaching space available to engineering students.
Sustainability features of the EDI Building include cross-laminated timber, low-carbon concrete, occupancy sensors for building monitoring, direct outside air unit, chilled beams, greywater infrastructure and a green roof. Both buildings are registered with the goal of LEED Gold®. Read more about each building below.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
LOCATION:
University Park, Pennsylvania
Mid-Atlantic
CLIENT:
Penn State University
INDUSTRY:
Higher Education
Science + Technology
SF of research space
SF space for engineering students
The Engineering Collaborative
Research Education
BUILDING
ECoRE is a 270,000 SF building for the aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, acoustics, and civil and environmental engineering programs. The research conducted in this facility will contribute to hypersonic flight and drones being designed and developed to fly on the moons of other planets.
The building features:
- Four teaching wind tunnels
- Static and flow through anechoic chamber
- Multiple flight simulators
- Wet labs and dry labs
- 3D immersive rendering space for cutting edge modelling
- Graduate/student collaboration spaces
- College of Engineering Knowledge Commons
- Indoor drone flight testing facility
- Structures lab
- Human performance laboratory with an independent HVAC system
- Food service
- Research cores
- Departmental teaching and studio spaces
- Rotorcraft icing chamber
- Departmental administration and faculty spaces
The Engineering Design and Innovation
BUILDING
The EDI Building is 105,000 SF of general purpose classrooms and laboratory space for the College of Engineering and School of Engineering Design and Innovation. The building includes:
- Two active learning, general-purpose classrooms
- 8,200 SF of research space and a high-bay research space
- Six studio spaces for active learning
- Multi-use design laboratory
- Wood shop
- Learning factory
- Factory for Advanced Manufacturing Education (FAME) laboratory
- Electronics and 3D printing laboratories
- Computer classrooms
- Office and conference space
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