Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, William & Mary’s project included the renovation of Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and construction of the Music Arts Center. The two buildings are now connected by an underground tunnel.

The Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall was originally built in 1956, and is the main performing arts complex on the campus. It was expanded to include more than 105,000 SF and serves as an academic building with classrooms, laboratories, three performance theaters and a scenery and costume shop.

Adjacent from the Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall is the new 75,000 SF Music Arts Center. The building includes a 450-seat concert hall, 125-seat recital hall, choral hall and an instrument rehearsal hall. It also has instrument storage spaces, a recording studio and box-in-box construction practice rooms, which are acoustic insulation spaces.

Both buildings tie into the University’s west central utility plant for chilled and heated water. Whiting-Turner utilized VDC to model all of the other equipment and piping throughout both facilities. The project also made use of the last planner system for schedule management with the subcontractors.