Supporting Student Connectivity
LEED Sliver Certified by U.S. Green Building Council
The John & Mary Alford Center for Science and Technology is a facility shared by The Ohio State University (OSU) and Central Ohio Technical College (COTC). The building brings together teaching and research labs, learning environments, and collaborative working space for multiple programs, including chemistry, biological sciences, nursing technologies, radiologic sciences technology, surgical technologies, physics, anthropology, geology, paleontology, and anatomy. Among these research environments were laboratories and rearing rooms for both spiders and bees. It also includes campus IT infrastructure that services the entire campus.
The new building is situated in a prominent location on the Newark campus and will serve as an architecturally significant gateway. The laboratory planning optimizes shared interdepartmental space and adjacencies and promote collaborative teaching opportunities to maximize synergy between OSU and COTC resources. In addition to multiple teaching labs, this project features 10 types of research space.
This project was a collaboration between DesignGroup and Perkins&Will and has been LEED Silver Certified.
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You may be able to do more than you realize with an existing academic building. Or you may find a new build better future-proofs your institution for changing student needs. We know these are major decisions. We’re eager to learn what you need, and how we can help.