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title: "LeBow College of Business | Drexel University – Keast & Hood"
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# LeBow College of Business | Drexel University

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The signature 12-story building rises on the Drexel Quad, featuring 177,500 sf of classrooms, offices, event spaces, and a 300-seat auditorium.

Drexel University drafted a 2005 strategic plan for a new building to consolidate the college’s teaching, research, and entrepreneur-development efforts. Keast & Hood provided structural engineering design for the signature building. The structural scope included dramatic steel framing that supports limestone-clad precast concrete panels and glass curtain walls. A portion of the first floor structure is suspended from two story-high transfer trusses located between the second and third floors. The design enables a 300-person auditorium on the lower level to remain column free. Other structural features include a five-story atrium with an intricate “floating” stair suspended from rods, large collaborative spaces achieved through the use of long-span steel framing, a mat foundation that accommodates hydrostatic pressure from a potential eight feet of ground water, extremely thin cantilevers, and excavation bracing along an adjacent subway line and nearby public utilities.

The LeBow project was honored with a 2014 Outstanding Project Award ($30-100 million) from the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers. The building is Green Globes Certified, receiving four out of four globes.

Principal

Constantine G. Doukakis, PE (retired)

Project Team

Alexander J. Stadel, PE | Robert W. Boris, PE

Client

Voith & Mactavish Architects, LLP with Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Project Type

Academic

Project Scope

New Construction

Status

Complete: 2013

Cost

$92 Million

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