To accommodate the growth of LaSalle’s technology-driven curricula, a new center for science and technology was conceived. The result was the Hugh and Nancy Devlin Center for Science and Technology, which involved a 20,000-sf addition and 80,000-sf renovation.

Keast & Hood provided structural design for the new center. An addition and renovation combined to create a modern classroom and laboratory building with an open floor plan that encourages collaboration and cross-disciplinary learning. Engineering challenges included creating a shallow structure for the addition to enable matching existing 12-foot floor-to-floor heights, seismic analysis of the existing building to justify elimination of an expansion joint, and design for vegetated green roofs on both the addition and the existing building.

To accommodate the growth of LaSalle’s technology-driven curricula, a new center for science and technology was conceived. The result was the Hugh and Nancy Devlin Center for Science and Technology, which involved a 20,000-sf addition and 80,000-sf renovation.

Keast & Hood provided structural design for the new center. An addition and renovation combined to create a modern classroom and laboratory building with an open floor plan that encourages collaboration and cross-disciplinary learning. Engineering challenges included creating a shallow structure for the addition to enable matching existing 12-foot floor-to-floor heights, seismic analysis of the existing building to justify elimination of an expansion joint, and design for vegetated green roofs on both the addition and the existing building.

CLIENT: UJMN Architects + Designers
LOCATION: Philadelphia, PA

TYPE: Academic, Laboratory, SERVICES: Addition, New Construction, Renovation, Seismic, MATERIALS: Concrete, Steel, SUSTAINABILITY: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .