West Virginia University South Agricultural Sciences Building

摘要

The project goals of the Owner represented a challenge in timing, expediency, energy efficiency and economical first cost for the design team. The University required a new building to house 7 plant pathology research laboratories and 2 teaching laboratories along with associated faculty office space from the College of Agriculture. The new building also needed to provide a 250 seat lecture hall. The building had to be designed and constructed within 18 short months. The design team was given 6 months to complete the design, the University required 3 months to bid and award contracts, and the successful bidder was given 9 months to complete the construction.rnThe ideal site location was adjacent to the existing Agriculture Sciences Building. The faculty formerly resided in a building slated for renovation at a separate academic campus about one mile away. The site itself was bound by the existing Agriculture Sciences Building to the North and a large buried electrical duct bank to the South. The new structure would become an addition to the existing Agricultural Sciences Building, uniting faculty and staff that had been separated for over 40 years by the two academic campuses.