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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.
During its May 7 meeting, the Penn State Board of Trustee s Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning approved a $228 million proposal to build a new research and teaching building on west campus.
Tentatively named the Research & Teaching Building and deemed The Penn State University West 1 project by the Office of Physical Plant, the new building will be âlocated at the terminus of the Westgate ramp,â according to the Office of Physical Plantâs website.
The new building will feature the Department of Aerospace and Acoustics, the Department of Architectural Engineering and the Department of Civil Engineering, according to the Office of Physical Plant.
After growing up in Centre County with two parents employed at Penn State, Alvin de Levie graduated from the university in 1973. He went on to earn a degree from Villanova Law School in 1976 and still practices as an attorney today in State College.
With a deep-rooted connection to Penn State and the surrounding community, de Levie feels he is the perfect candidate for one of the three available alumni-elected positions on Penn State’s Board of Trustees. He sat down with Onward State to discuss his platform and the upcoming election.
He pointed toward his upbringing, which heavily featured Penn State and the borough, as an influence on his life.