The project is a new, approximately 60,520 square foot, 3-story Academic Science Building on the current site of parking lot #5. The building area includes a mechanical penthouse level. The new academic facility will replace the current functions of Frich Hall and New Science Hall and will house laboratory classrooms and support spaces for the study of biology, chemistry, and physics. Site Work will include relocation of site utilities, removal of existing site amenities, as well as excavation and grading, site paving, lawns and plantings, and miscellaneous site improvements. It will also include a separate approximately 880 square foot greenhouse outbuilding with associated site improvements and utilities. Finally, the project will include asbestos abatement and demolition of Frich Hall and New Science Hall, and returning the sites to green space, plus abandonment and demolition of part of University Avenue and development of a new pedestrian walkway.
