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FSU set to break ground on multidisciplinary science building http://dlvr.it/MXFZtf pic.twitter.com/Kn4ZfIGZpr
The $69.5- million building will include classrooms, teaching labs, research labs, offices and student study spaces at Woodward Avenue and West Tennessee Street, across from the Oglesby Student Union. It also will feature labs for geology, oceanography, trace metals and fluids.
“FSU’s Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science Department is one of the leading 'all Earth spheres' research and teaching programs in the nation,” department chairman James Tull said.
“Bringing all of its multidisciplinary talent and resources in teaching and research under one roof in a new state-of-the-art science building will allow this accomplished academic program to further advance and cement FSU’s position on the frontier of innovative understanding of the planet and the many problems and challenges that mankind faces as we move into the future.”
Faculty from Geological Sciences, Meteorology, and Oceanography merged in 2010 to create the new Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science department.
The 130,536-square-foot building will house faculty and students within the department who now occupy three different on campus buildings that date back to the 1950s and 1960s.
The former Gunter building was demolished in 2015. Construction will begin in January, with an anticipated completion date of December 2018.
FSU was awarded $12 million toward construction of the building in this year’s legislative session.
The building will serve as a gateway into the FSU campus along its northern boundary. Ajax Construction Co. is the construction manager. It was designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Inc.
Joining Thrasher in giving remarks at the 3:30 p.m. briefing will be board of trustees chairman Ed Burr and College of Arts and Sciences Dean Sam Huckaba. The construction site is at Academic and Antarctic ways."
A great start for FSU transforming the aesthetics of that part of campus that parallels Tennessee. Going to be a long process (decades), but this is an exciting and much needed start.
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