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Penn State officials and guests on Friday celebrated the start of construction for two new College of Engineering buildings on University Park’s West Campus, marking the beginning of a long-term plan to transform the facilities and footprint of the school’s largest academic program.
The “groundbreaking” ceremony, came well after the start of construction for the first of the buildings, counterintuitively called West 2, which began last September. But COVID-19 gathering restrictions were in place at the time and site work has only recently begun on the second building, dubbed West 1.
Located west of North Atherton Street and off of White Course Drive, the new buildings are the first phase of a
Plans for a new, $228 million Penn State College of Engineering building on West Campus are moving forward following a recommendation for approval on Thursday by a university’s Board of Trustees Committee on Finance Business and Capital Planning.
The full board will vote on approving the plans and authorizing the funds during its meeting on Friday.
At 290,000 square feet, Engineering Research and Teaching Space 1, also known as West 1, will be Penn State’s largest academic facility.
West 1, which will be located just off of White Course Drive north of the Earth and Engineering Sciences, is part of a
multi-phase master plan to improve the quantity and quality of the College of Engineering’s facilities.
Trustees approve plans, funds for new West 1 engineering building
The engineering research and teaching space currently known as West 1 will sit at the west end of the Westgate ramp and house experiential learning spaces, as well as research labs and departmental offices.
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Trustees approve plans, funds for new West 1 engineering building
May 07, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The Board of Trustees today (May 7) approved the final plans and construction of a new engineering research and teaching space at the University Park campus.
Currently called West 1, the proposed $228 million building is the latest project in the College of Engineering’s proposed, decade-long plan to modernize engineering facilities and creatively use space to foster collaborative innovation.